Rock Barrington is back again. Stuart Woods has generated no better known or liked character than the ex-cop, Manhattan lawyer and investigator whose function treads the slim line between the reputable practice of rules as well as the dark aspect of humanity. In Dead in the Water, Stone has hardly found its way to St. Marks, a lovely Caribbean island nation, on the sailing holiday when something very strange happens: a beautiful young woman sails into the harbor, entirely alone on a large yacht. In a short time, she actually is about Dead in water: A Novel under the intense scrutiny of the local authorities, in the very significant person of Sir Winston Sutherland, the minister of justice. The problem can be, though she came alone, she got departed the additional side of the Atlantic in the company of her husband, a well-known writer, who is no longer in evidence. Proof is exactly what fascinates Stone Barrington, and he is everything that stands between the evidently innocent Allison Manning and the patently wicked objective of Sir Winston, whose motives are unclear. What is clear would be that the St. Marks system of justice bears little resemblance to the American courts to which Rock is accustomed, which his smallest mistake could show fatal to his customer. Dead in water is definitely a rollercoaster trip, teeming with the plot twists which have made the novels of Stuart Woods NY Instances bestsellers and international hits.