ReviewsPraise for Smooth Operator "Fast-moving, full of action, sexy and now with a very bright, devious new hero in Teddy Fay...It is like eating forbidden fruit, sugary cotton candy or forbidden chocolate brownies with nuts. You know it isn't good for you, but you can't put it down! Just go ahead and read it."-- Lincoln Journal-Star "Fans are sure to welcome this action-packed start to a separate series within the larger Stone Barrington story arc."-- Publishers Weekly "Woods has millions of fans accumulated over the last 35 years who will read anything with his name on it, and Hall brings his own considerable following to the party. Entertaining, suspenseful reading for those who like smart-ass protagonists who are shrewder, tougher, and funnier than the bad guys they encounter."-- Booklist More Praise for Stuart Woods "Stuart Woods is a no-nonsense, slam-bang storyteller."-- Chicago Tribune "A world-class mystery writer...I try to put Woods's books down and I can't."-- Houston Chronicle "Mr. Woods, like his characters, has an appealing way of making things nice and clear."-- The New York Times "Woods certainly knows how to keep the pages turning."-- Booklist "Since 1981, readers have not been able to get their fill of Stuart Woods' New York Times bestselling novels of suspense."-- Orlando Sentinel "Woods's Stone Barrington is a guilty pleasure...he's also an addiction that's harder to kick than heroin."-- Contra Costa Times (California), Praise for Smooth Operator "Fans are sure to welcome this action-packed start to a separate series within the larger Stone Barrington story arc."-- Publishers Weekly "Woods has millions of fans accumulated over the last 35 years who will read anything with his name on it, and Hall brings his own considerable following to the party. Entertaining, suspenseful reading for those who like smart-ass protagonists who are shrewder, tougher, and funnier than the bad guys they encounter."-- Booklist Praise for Stuart Woods "Woods offers another wild ride with his hero, bringing readers back into a world of action-packed adventure, murder and mayhem, steamy romance, and a twist you don't see coming."-- Booklist "Extravagant . . . a series of escalating, sometimes amusing, tit-for-tat maneuvers ensue and eventually turn deadly. . . . Stone remains unflappable."-- Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition., Praise for Smooth Operator "Fast-moving, full of action, sexy and now with a very bright, devious new hero in Teddy Fay...It is like eating forbidden fruit, sugary cotton candy or forbidden chocolate brownies with nuts. You know it isn't good for you, but you can't put it down! Just go ahead and read it."-- Lincoln Journal-Star "Fans are sure to welcome this action-packed start to a separate series within the larger Stone Barrington story arc."-- Publishers Weekly "Woods has millions of fans accumulated over the last 35 years who will read anything with his name on it, and Hall brings his own considerable following to the party. Entertaining, suspenseful reading for those who like smart-ass protagonists who are shrewder, tougher, and funnier than the bad guys they encounter."-- Booklist Praise for Stuart Woods "Woods offers another wild ride with his hero, bringing readers back into a world of action-packed adventure, murder and mayhem, steamy romance, and a twist you don't see coming."-- Booklist "Extravagant...a series of escalating, sometimes amusing, tit-for-tat maneuvers ensue and eventually turn deadly....Stone remains unflappable."-- Publishers Weekly
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series comes the first novel in an extraordinary series starring an old fan favorite: Teddy Fay. When President Kate Lee calls Stone Barrington to Washington on an urgent matter, it's soon clear that a potentially disastrous situation requires the kind of help more delicate than even he can provide...and he knows just the right man for the job. Teddy Fay: ex-CIA, master of disguise, and a gentleman not known for abiding by legal niceties in the pursuit of his own brand of justice.