Wild Card

Stone Barrington is spending a quiet stretch in the country with his latest romantic interest when a stranger turns up and shatters the calm. The man has been sent by one of Stone's enemies, someone who would like to see Stone and everyone who works with him permanently silenced. The attempt fails, because Stone proves a much harder man to take down than his opponent expected.

That opponent has money and patience to spare, along with a deep appetite for revenge, so one failed scheme simply gives way to the next. The newest plan is the most ambitious and the most carefully hidden of all, and if it works, its effects could reshape the country itself.

With national stakes rising, Stone has to draw on all of his cunning and nerve to outmaneuver an adversary who refuses to quit. Wild Card is a fast-moving entry in Stuart Woods's long-running Stone Barrington series.