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Stuart Woods' Edgar(r) Award-winning vel spans fifty years of racial tension, politics, and murder in the small Southern town of Dela, Georgia, where a depraved killer claims his incent victims even as three very different generations of policemen seek to stop him.For the people of Dela, Georgia, 1920 was a landmark year. That winter they elected their first police chief, built the first jail. . .and discovered the first body -- the naked, brutalized corpse o a young boy. So began a forty-year manhunt that would embroil three generations of small-town police chiefs in the dark, twisted secrets of their sleepy, God-fearing community -- and expose a seamy underbelly of hatred, corruption, and perversion too terrible to imagine. . .and too virulent to igre.</p>Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10045121580X
ISBN-139780451215802
eBay Product ID (ePID)183234232
Product Key Features
Book TitleChiefs
Number of Pages608 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Small Town & Rural, Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year2005
GenreFiction
AuthorStuart Woods
Book SeriesWill Lee Novel Ser.
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length7.5 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Place of PublicationNew York
Spine33mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author Biography<b>Stuart Woods</b>is the author of more than sixty novels. He is a native of Georgia and began his writing career in the advertising industry.<i>Chiefs</i>, his debut in 1981, won the Edgar Award. An avid sailor and pilot, Woods lives in Florida, Maine, and New Mexico.