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Date Posted: 17:40:25 09/17/02 Tue
Author: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer
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ANHOW Review of Books: "Chiefs" by Stuart Woods

Genre: mystery
Published: 1981 by Avon

This is the story of a succession of police chiefs in Delano, Georgia, a small town. It reminds me of a James Michener novel in that the main characters change as time progresses, but the story continues on in the same locale. This novel is also the story of race relations in rural Georgia from the 1920s to the 1960s.

The characters are very good - there's a wide variety of characters here. One of the sherrifs is especially vile, but you root for him as he is tracking down a serial killer that stalks, rapes and kills young men over the course of 40 years.

Stuart Woods is sort of a hack nowadays, writing formulaic detective thrillers, but this is his first work of fiction and undoubtedly the best I've read. Here is the highest praise I can give it - this book is a book that I wish I had written - it has heart, danger, loyalty and a host of other qualities that make it great.. I give this book an "A".

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