Swimming to Catalina

the juggling act that lasts almost to the last page, when the payoffs fall like autumn leaves.”
    —New York Daily News

    CHOKE
    “Woods know how to keep the narrative pace in overdrive…. An entertaining page-turner.”
    —New York Times Book Review
    “A real page-turner with surprises along the way.”
    —Boston Globe
    IMPERFECT STRANGERS
    “Woods does show a reader a good time.”
    —Washington Post Book World
    “Engages the reader’s imagination in an unconventional way. Compels us to place the novel’s events on the silver screen in the shadow of a latter-day Hitchcock, and somehow, it works.”
    —Chicago Sun-Times
    HEAT
    “High melodrama and unexpected twists make this teflon-coated blockbuster business as usual in Woods’s practiced hands.”
    —Publishers Weekly
    “A high-concept action thriller.”
    —Kirkus Reviews
    DEAD EYES
    “Keeps you reading.”
    —Cosmopolitan

    Books by Stuart Woods
    Stone Barrington Novels
    New York Dead
    Dirt
    Dead in the Water
    Swimming to Catalina
    Worst Fears Realized
    L.A. Dead
    Cold Paradise
    The Short Forever
    Dirty Work
    Holly Barker
    Orchid Beach
    Orchid Blues
    Blood Orchid
    Will Lee
    Run Before the Wind
    Grass Roots
    The Run
    Standalone Titles
    Chiefs
    Deep Lie
    Under the Lake
    White Cargo
    Palindrome
    Santa Fe Rules
    L.A. Times
    Dead Eyes
    Heat
    Imperfect Strangers
    Choke
    Nonfiction
    Blue Water, Green Skipper
    A Romantic’s Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and England

    Credits
    Cover design and illustraction by John Lewis

    This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    SWIMMING TO CATALINA. Copyright © 1998 by Stuart Woods. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound™.
    “We Are Very Different People”: Stuart Woods on Stone Barrington. This interview originally appeared inThe Internet Writing Journal (R), http://www.writerswrite.com. Copyright © 1997–2003 by Writers Write, Inc. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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    A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1998 by HarperCollinsPublishers .
    First HarperPaperbacks printing: December 1998

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