Swimming to Catalina

"New York Times" bestselling author Stuart Woods kept a nation of readers glued to their seats as one of his best-loved characters, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan attorney and investigator Stone Barrington, battled a viciously corrupt Caribbean minister of justice in "Dead in the Water" and fought the gossip-mongering hordes of the newspaper business in "Dirt, " proving that the line between what's legal and what's lethal can be deadly fire.