Cut and Thrust
BOOKS BY STUART WOODS
FICTION
Carnal Curiosity
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Standup Guy
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Doing Hard Time
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Unintended Consequences
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Collateral Damage
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Severe Clear
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Unnatural Acts
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D.C. Dead
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Son of Stone
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Bel-Air Dead
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Strategic Moves
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Santa Fe Edge
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Lucid Intervals
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Kisser
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Hothouse Orchid*
Loitering with Intent
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Mounting Fears
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Hot Mahogany
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Santa Fe Dead
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Beverly Hills Dead
Shoot Him If He Runs
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Fresh Disasters
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Short Straw
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Dark Harbor
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Iron Orchid*
Two-Dollar Bill
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The Prince of Beverly Hills
Reckless Abandon
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Capital Crimes
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Dirty Work
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Blood Orchid*
The Short Forever
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Orchid Blues*
Cold Paradise
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L.A. Dead
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The Run
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Worst Fears Realized
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Orchid Beach*
Swimming to Catalina
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Dead in the Water
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Dirt
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Choke
Imperfect Strangers
Heat
Dead Eyes
L.A. Times
Santa Fe Rules
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New York Dead
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Palindrome
Grass Roots
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White Cargo
Deep Lie
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Under the Lake
Run Before the Wind
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Chiefs
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TRAVEL
A Romantic’s Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland (1979)
MEMOIR
Blue Water, Green Skipper
*A Holly Barker Novel
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A Stone Barrington Novel
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A Will Lee Novel
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An Ed Eagle Novel
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Woods, Stuart.
Cut and thrust / Stuart Woods.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-698-15408-7
1. Political fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.O642C88 2014 2013050462
813'.54—dc23
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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