num_pages: 360
description: Hired to prove infidelity in an heiress's marriage, Stone Barrington leads an undercover operation. But the work turns dirty, and catastrophic, when the errant husband is found dead, and the other woman disappears without a trace.Now, Stone must clear his own good name and find a killer hiding among the glitterati of New York's high society. Enter Carpenter, the beautiful British intelligence agent first encountered in 'The Short Forever.' She has arrived in New York to begin an investigation of her own. Stone suspects that her case is strangely connected to the dead husband.Barrington and Bacchetti, former NYPD partners, are set to face the most bizarre and challenging assignment of their very colorful careers.
language: English
title: Dirty Work
titlecomplete: Dirty Work (Stone Barrington, #9)
characters: Bobby the bartender, Dr. von Enzberg, Bob Cantor, Carpenter (The Short Forever), Saddam (Dirty Work), Hattie Englander, Felicity Devonshire, Giuliani and Bloomberg (Dirty Work), Elena Marks, George Mellon, Dino Bacchetti, Irving Newman, Mr. Purdue, Stone Barrington, Tony Levy, Bill Eggers, Herbie Fisher, Jim Torrelli, Michel Robert, The Director of the FBI (Dirty Work), Burt Pence, Howard Chandler Christy (Dirty Work), Lawrence Fortescue, Florence Tyler, Arlene (Dirty Work), Judge Kaplan, Abdul (Dirty Work), Security at the embassy, Architect (Dirty Work), Ginger Harvey, The international assassin (Dirty Work), Sol Kaminsky, Mason (Dirty Work), Joan Robertson, Elaine Kaufman (Dirt), Teddy (Dirty Work), Captain Grady, Billy Franco
genres: Mystery, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 9391
places: New York City, New York
series: Stone Barrington
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons