Chiefs
1981 • 609 pages

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Stuart Woods’s Edgar Award-winning debut novel—a classic American mystery saga about three generations of lawmen tangled in a web of passion, secrets, destiny, and murder in their small Southern town... In the winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgie—the naked, brutalized corpse of a young boy. It is a crime too horrific to be ignored, the first of many that will span four decades—embroiling three police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fear, and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy God-fearing community.

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Will Lee is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1981 with contributions by Stuart Woods.

Chiefs
Run Before the Wind
Intrigo profondo
The Run

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this is one of my favourites should be treated as an American classic. The dialog is fantastic and its a story of American southern history first and a crimenovel secondly

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