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This book is for the saints of Washington, Connecticut, Paul and Joan
Marks

CHAPTER

one Barrington slowly opened his eyes and stared blearily at the
pattern o moving light above him. Disoriented, he tried to make sense
of the light. Then it came to him: he was aboard a yacht, and the
light was reflected off the water.

He sat up and rubbed his eyes. The night before had been the stuff of
bad dreams; he never wanted to have another like it. The nightmare had
started at Kennedy Airport, when his live-in girlfriend, Arrington
Carter, had not shown up for the flight. She was supposed to come
directly from the magazine office where she had been meeting with an
editor, but she had not arrived.

Stone had found a phone and had tracked down

Arrington, still at The New Yorker.

"Hello?" she said.

Stone glanced at his watch. "I guess you're not going to make the
plane," he said. "It leaves in twenty minutes."

STUART WOODS

"Stone, I'm so sorry; I've been having you paged at the terminal.
Didn't you hear the page?" He tried to keep his voice calm. "No, I
didn't." "Everything has exploded here. I took the proposal for the
profile on Vance Calder to Tina Brown, and she went for it instantly.
Turns out she had tried and tried to do a piece with Vance when she was
at Vanity Fair, and he would never cooperate." "That's wonderful," he
said tonelessly. "I'm happy for you." "Look, darling, Vance is coming
into New York tomorrow, and I've got to introduce him to Tina at lunch,
there's just no getting around it." "I see," he replied. "Don't
worry, I'm already booked on the same flight tomorrow. You go ahead to
St. Marks, take delivery of the boat, put in some provisions, and get
gloriously drunk. I'll be there by midnight." "All right," he said.
"Oh," she sighed, "I'm so relieved you're not angry. I know you can
see what a break this is for me. Vance hasn't sat still for an
in-depth interview for more than twenty years. Tina says she'll bump
up the printing for the anticipated increase in newsstand sales."
"That's great," he said, making an effort to sound glad for her. "I'll