SummaryStone Barrington is caught between a clever con man-who's
just become his client-and a beautiful prosecutor in this
stylish thriller in the bestselling series.
Two-Dollar Bill delivers all the storytelling twists and
whip-smart banter readers have come to love in Stuart
Woods's thrillers. In this latest, Stone Barrington, the
suave Manhattan cop-turned-lawyer, is back on his home
turf facing down a brilliant Southern flimflam man.
The fun-and action-begins with what Stone believes will be
a quiet dinner with his ex-partner, Dino, but they are
interrupted by Billy Bob, a filthy rich, smooth-talkin'
Texan, who strolls in and parks himself at their table.
He's in town "to make money," he says, unwrapping his wad
of rare two-dollar bills, and in need of an attorney-
namely, Stone-though he won't say why or when such
representation will be necessary. As they leave the
restaurant, however, an unknown assailant shoots at Stone
and his cohorts-and the wily Southerner has spread his two-
dollar bills around to everyone like confetti.
Against his better judgment, Stone offers Billy Bob a safe
haven for the night but almost immediately begins to
suspect that he's made several precipitous misjudgments-
for the slippery out-of-towner has gone missing and
someone has been found dead-in Stone's town house no less.
Stone is now caught between a beautiful federal prosecutor
and a love from his past, a con man with more aliases than
hairs on his head, and a murder investigation that could
ruin them all.
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