Strategic Moves

Stuart Woods

Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

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THIRTY-NINE

FORTY

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FORTY-TWO

FORTY-THREE

FORTY-FOUR

FORTY-FIVE

FORTY-SIX

FORTY-SEVEN

FORTY-EIGHT

FORTY-NINE

FIFTY

FIFTY-ONE

FIFTY-TWO

FIFTY-THREE

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FIFTY-FIVE

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Acknowledgements

AUTHOR’S NOTE

BOOKS BY STUART WOODS

FICTION

Santa Fe Edge^§
Lucid Intervals^†
Kisser^†
Hothouse Orchid^*
Loitering with Intent^†
Mounting Fears^‡
Hot Mahogany^†
Santa Fe Dead^§
Beverly Hills Dead
Shoot Him If He Runs^†
Fresh Disasters^†
Short Straw^§
Dark Harbor^†
Iron Orchid^*
Two-Dollar Bill^†
The Prince of Beverly Hills
Reckless Abandon^†
Capital Crimes^‡
Dirty Work^†
Blood Orchid^*
The Short Forever^†
Orchid Blues^*
Cold Paradise^†
L.A. Dead^†
The Run^‡
Worst Fears Realized^†
Orchid Beach*
Swimming to Catalina^†
Dead in the Water^†
Dirt^†
Choke
Imperfect Strangers
Heat
Dead Eyes
L.A. Times
Santa Fe Rules^§
New York Dead^†
Palindrome
Grass Roots^‡
White Cargo
Deep Lie^‡
Under the Lake
Run Before the Wind^‡
Chiefs^‡

TRAVEL

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

MEMOIR

Blue Water, Green Skipper (1977)

* A Holly Barker Novel
† A Stone Barrington Novel
‡ A Will Lee Novel
§ An Ed Eagle Novel

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Woods, Stuart.

Strategic moves / Stuart Woods.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-48610-8

1. Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—New York—Fiction. 3. Swindlers and swindling—Fiction. 4. Great Britain. MI6—Officials and employees—Fiction. I. Title.