61. Hot Mahogany - Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington #15
read by Tony Roberts
7 cds (8 hrs.)
304  pages
Adult Mystery

Finished: 12/6/2012

Published September, 2008,  Putnam

Goodreads’ rating: 3.57

My rating: 2/It was okay

Acquired: PBS Audio

Setting:   New York City and rural Connecticut

from Goodreads:
One night at Elaine's, Stone Barrington, back in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbean, meets Barton Cabot, older brother of his sometime ally, CIA boss Lance Cabot. Barton's career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brother's, but he's suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence. Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets, so Lance hires Stone to watch Barton's back. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture. The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at first seems a far cry from Stone's usual underworld of mobsters, murderers, and spies. But Barton also is a man with a past, and one event in particular, in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier, is coming back to haunt his present in ways he'd never expected. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.

Reflections:   I haven't read a Stone Barrington in awhile, but I didn't really like him in this book. He's quite snobby, over-the-top sophisticated (or so he thinks), and way too much of a lady's man. Maybe it's the way that Tony Roberts reads him (I listened to the audio version), but I was not at all enamored with this book.