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BOOKS BY STUART WOODS

FICTION

Cut and Thrust†

Carnal Curiosity†

Standup Guy†

Doing Hard Time†

Unintended Consequences†

Collateral Damage†

Severe Clear†

U

DC Dead†

Son of Stone†

Bel-Air Dead†

Strategic Moves†

Santa Fe Edge§

Lucid Intervals†

Kisser†

Hothouse Orchid*

Loitering with Intent†

Mounting Fears‡

Hot Mahogany†

Santa Fe Dead§

Beverly Hills Dead

Shoot Him If He Runs†

Fresh Disasters†

Short Straw§

Dark Harbor†

Iron Orchid*

Two-Dollar Bill†

The Prince of Beverly Hills

Reckless Abandon†

Capital Crimes‡

Dirty Work†

Blood Orchid*

The Short Forever†

Orchid Blues*

Cold Paradise†

L.A. Dead†

The Run‡

Worst Fears Realized†

Orchid Beach*

Swimming to Catalina†

Dead in the Water†

Dirt†

Choke

Imperfect Strangers

Heat

Dead Eyes

L.A. Times

Santa Fe Rules§

New York Dead†

Palindrome

Grass Roots‡

White Cargo

Deep Lie‡

Under the Lake

Run Before the Wind‡

Chiefs‡

TRAVEL

A Romantic’s Guide to the Country I

MEMOIR

Blue Water, Green Skipper

 

A Holly Barker Novel*

A Stone Barrington Novel†

A Will Lee Novel‡

An Ed Eagle Novel§

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Woods, Stuart.

Paris match / Stuart Woods.

p. cm.—(Stone Barrington; 31)

ISBN 978-0-698-15411-7

1. Barrington, Stone (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Fiction. 3. Paris (France)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3573.O642P37 2014 2014018596

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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CONTENTS

Books by Stuart Woods

Title Page

Copyright

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Author’s Note

1

Stone Barrington closed his three suitcases and called down for Fred Flicker to fetch his luggage. Fred was quick.

“I’ll have the car around in five minutes, Mr. Barrington,” he said.

“Thank you, Fred.”

Fred hustled the three cases onto the elevator and disappeared. Stone turned to A

“Are you crying because I’m leaving?” Stone asked. “I mean, you’ve known for weeks that I have to go to Paris for the opening of the new hotel, l’Arrington.”

“No,” she said, “that’s not why.”

“I’ll be back in two or three weeks, and you’re going to be so busy with the campaign that you won’t even notice that I’m gone.”

“I’ll notice,” A

“Just a minute,” Stone said. He buzzed his secretary, Joan Robertson. “Ask Fred to pick up the Bacchettis, then come back for me,” he said. Then he returned and sat next to A

“All right,” he said, “tell me.”

“I’m crying because I won’t be here when you get back,” A

This was news to Stone. “And where will you be?”

“In Washington.”

“I don’t understand, Kate said you could work out of New York.”

“Kate changed her mind,” A

“And this is until the election?” Stone asked hopefully.

“Only if Kate isn’t elected,” A

“As the president’s chief of staff, you’ll be the second-most-powerful person in the world?”

“That’s what everybody says,” A