HOT MAHOGANY Hardback - 2008

de Woods, Stuart

One night at Elaine's, Stone Barrington back inManhattan after chasing down the bad guys in theCaribbean meets Barton Cabot, older brother of hissometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton's career in armyintelligence is even more top secret than his brother's, but he'ssuffering from amnesia following a random act of violence.Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfullof state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton'sback. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusualhobby: building and restoring antique furniture. The genteelworld of antiques and coin dealers at first seems a far cry fromStone's usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and spies.But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particular in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier is coming back to haunt his present in ways he'd never expected.Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady charactersof his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a fewforged antiques.