One night at Elainexs Stone Barringtonxback in Manhattan after chasing down the bad guys in the Caribbeanxmeets Barton Cabot older brother of his sometime ally CIA boss Lance Cabot Bartonxs career in army intelligence is even more top secret than his brotherxs but hexs suffering from amnesia following a random act of violence Amnesia is a dangerous thing in a man whose memory is chockfull of state secrets so Lance hires Stone to watch Bartonxs back As Stone discovers Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby building and restoring antique furniture The genteel world of antiques and coin dealers at first seems a far cry from Stonexs usual underworld of mobsters murderers and spies But Barton also is a man with a past and one event in particularx in the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlierx is coming back to haunt his present in ways hexd never expected Stone soon finds out that Barton and some shady characters of his acquaintance may be hiding a lot more than just a few forged antiques.
