Craving the rapid-fire repartee, right-angle plot twists and page-turning action that Stuart Woods is famous for? It's clear you need a dose of Stone Barrington in Lucid Intervals.

Stone is enjoying another quiet night at Elaine's when Herbie Fisher walks in. A former client, Herbie is not the sharpest tack in the box. But this time, he has a girl on his arm and two million dollars in cash in her handbag! He claims he won the money in the lottery and now someone's trying to kill him, and he wants Stone to be his lawyer.

Stone says no dice, but after a gunshot breaks the window above his head, he reluctantly agrees. Then British intelligence officer Felicity Devonshire drops in and plunks a case in his lap. Stanley Whitestone, a former spy in Her Majesty's employ, was stealing and selling information before he was cashiered out, and the last person to see him alive has vanished. Stone must find Whitestone and hand him over to British authorities.

But why is the Foreign Office so anxious to locate a man who left their service years ago? As usual, the case is more complicated than Stone expects. And on top of that, his insane ex-wife, Dolce, is stalking him...and she's more dangerous than ever.