Stuart Woodss latest Holly Barker thriller delivers more action, adventure, and high-stakes drama than ever before and shows just why critics call the series dry, witty [and] memorably funny (Publishers Weekly). Barker, the sexy, no-nonsense former police chief from Orchid Beach, Florida, has been known to crack cases even the FBI couldnt break. Now Lance Cabot, who readers will remember from The Short Forever, makes Holly an offer she cant refuse: to join an elite intelligence unit hunting down terrorists on American soil. Their first prey, however, may turn out to be all-American. Teddy Fay, the ex-CIA technology wizard introduced in Capital Crimes, apparently blew up his own airplane while being hotly pursued by the F.B.I. and U.S. Navy pilots. But now a series of attacks on a new kind of victimterrorists with diplomatic immunitymake some in the governmentup to and including the President of the United Statesbelieve Teddy may be back. And Holly finds herself in the thick of the hunt. With his signature mix of the slick repartee and rapid-fire action that have won him myriad fans over the years, Stuart Woodss Iron Orchid confirms why he is a king of popular suspense.