Lucid Intervals

Stuart Woods

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Stuart Woods Three Stone Barrington Adventures

Lucid Intervals

Strategic Moves

Bel-Air Dead

Stuart Woods

Lucid Intervals

BOOKS BY STUART WOODS

FICTION

Kisser2
Hothouse Orchid1
Loitering with Intent2
Mounting Fears
Hot Mahogany2
Santa Fe Dead4
Beverly Hills Dead
Shoot Him If He Runs2
Fresh Disasters2
Short Straw4
Dark Harbor2
Iron Orchid1
Two-Dollar Bill2
The Prince of Beverly Hills
Reckless Abandon2
Capital Crimes3
Dirty Work2
Blood Orchid1
The Short Forever2
Orchid Blues1
Cold Paradise2
L.A. Dead2
The Run3
Worst Fears Realized2
Orchid Beach1
Swimming to Catalina2
Dead in the Water2
Dirt2
Choke
Imperfect Strangers
Heat
Dead Eyes
L.A. Times
Santa Fe Rules4
New York Dead2
Palindrome
Grass Roots3
White Cargo
Deep Lie3
Under the Lake
Run Before the Wind3
Chiefs3

TRAVEL

A Romantic’s Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland (1979)

MEMOIR

Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lucid intervals / Stuart Woods.
p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-18697-8

1. Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Attorney and client—Fiction.
3. Private investigators—Fiction. 4. Lottery winners—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.O642L
813’.54—dc22

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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This book is for Ted and Barbara Flicker.

Elaine’s, late.

Stone Barrington and Dino Bacchetti were sitting at their usual table, eating penne with shrimp and vodka sauce, when a young man named Herbert Fisher walked in with a tall young woman.