Title: Loitering with intent
Description: Dumped by his glamorous Russian girlfriend during dinner at Elaines, and running low on cash, Stone Barrington is having a bad week. So his luck seems to be improving when hes hired to locate the missing son of a very wealthy manlucky because the job pays well, and because the son is hiding in the tropical paradise of Key West. But when Stone and his sometime running buddy Dino Bacchetti arrive in the sunny Keys, it appears that someone has been lying in wait. When Stone very nearly loses his life after being blindsided at a local bar, he realizes that the young man hes been hired to track may have good reason for not wanting to be found. Suddenly Key West is looking less like Margaritaville and more like the mean streets of New York. . . .
Subjects: Stone Barrington (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Fiction, Mystery, Private investigators in fiction, Large type books, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2009-05-10, New York Times bestseller, Stone Barrington (Fictional character), Homicide, Mystery fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Barrington, stone (fictitious character), fiction, Key west (fla.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction
Places: New York (State), Key West (Fla.), New York