Stone Barrington

Stone Barrington is the suave protagonist of Stuart Woods's enormously popular long-running thriller series — a former NYPD detective who became a lawyer after being passed over for promotion, and who now operates as an attorney and private investigator whose cases inevitably draw him into high-stakes conspiracies, international intrigue, and the company of beautiful, accomplished women. Stone is quintessentially Woods: urbane, wealthy, sexually magnetic, and possessed of a network of powerful friends who can solve most problems.

The Stone Barrington series is one of crime fiction's great comfort-read institutions — consistent in its pleasures, reliable in its formula, and enormously entertaining within its self-defined parameters. Stone's Manhattan life, his Maine retreat at Arrington, his friendships with CIA operatives and former police colleagues, and his parade of romantic partners create a fictional world that millions of readers have returned to across more than sixty novels. Begin with New York Dead to meet Stone at the beginning of his story.