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Summary: a great mystery
Review: This is a compelling read. Well written on several levels. Nice people and some evil people, Southern USA from 1920 to 1965.
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Summary: A fantastic epic
Review: This is a novel that I have been wanting to read for quite sometime, and it was well worth the wait. Stuart Woods has managed to incorporate a history lesson about civil rights with a fantastic mystery. Woods develops Will Henry and Billy Lee's characters remarkably well, and ties father and son together in the history of the town of Delano. This novel also shows just how delicate racial tensions were in the south.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is probably my favorite book of all times. If you like mysteries and american history - this is a can't miss book!
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Summary: very intriguing...but a bit too slow
Review: This is the second book by Stuart Woods that I've read. The first being Orchid Beach which was paced like lightning. This one was a bit slower. It reminded me of a Ken Follett book in that it spans over the course of many years, decades even, intermingling a central location and all the characters who populated that location over the years. I thought the dialogue was a bit on the dry side. Everyone had their own voice and I got the feeling from the style Woods used that people were indeed southern, but there wasn't that much personality to the characters. In other words, I didn't get that much feeling of emotion from their words as I do other books. The book is only about 427 pages long but it seemed like it was alot longer than that. I liked the theme overall..I found the premise of the story very interesting. But the pacing and the lack of focus or time spent on the 'main event' of the book (the common theme that drives the whole story and its characters through the years) kind of killed it for me.
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Summary: very intriguing...but a bit too slow
Review: This is the second book by Stuart Woods that I've read. The first being Orchid Beach which was paced like lightning. This one was a bit slower. It reminded me of a Ken Follett book in that it spans over the course of many years, decades even, intermingling a central location and all the characters who populated that location over the years. I thought the dialogue was a bit on the dry side. Everyone had their own voice and I got the feeling from the style Woods used that people were indeed southern, but there wasn't that much personality to the characters. In other words, I didn't get that much feeling of emotion from their words as I do other books. The book is only about 427 pages long but it seemed like it was alot longer than that. I liked the theme overall..I found the premise of the story very interesting. But the pacing and the lack of focus or time spent on the 'main event' of the book (the common theme that drives the whole story and its characters through the years) kind of killed it for me.
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Summary: Fabulous
Review: 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 undoubtedly the best of his that 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.
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Summary: An excellent story of mystery in the South.
Review: This is the story of three small-town police chiefs who investigate a series of child murders over sixty years. The identity of the killer is revealed early, but the real story is the efforts to catch the killer and the racial and political overtones of the events. An excellent book. Also an excellent 1983 CBS miniseries
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Summary: so-so
Review: This was a decent read. I think the plot was a bit scattered and the dialogue shift between some of the characters was over used and cliché, but for the most part the book was okay. The authors slips a bit of sociology in there too. You see a circle of events but you also see the answer to questions that, as adults, we see in kids. " How can anyone hate like that?" Well, the family may be part of the reason and in this story, you get that. A racist father, a racist son and so one. The progression makes sense. The honest father, the honest son.
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Summary: Exciting Book!
Review: This was a well written book thar made an excellent movie as well.You have the history of three police chiefs in the state of Georgia that covers a 45 year period.You also have a long time mystery of missing young boys.This is a mystery passed on over the ages from chief to chief.It remains a huge mystery as to who is behind the dissapearance of the young boys.The true identity
of the kidnapper-killer is shocking. The cultural and racial differences in the community are well covered in this book.If you
read this book you will become a Stuart Woods fan. The movie is excellent as well.
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Summary: Great
Review: This was without a doubt one of the best books I have ever read. It is more a combination of history and mystery. Very interesting story along with some interesting charactors. I saw the TV movie many years ago and really liked it. The book was better and more detailed. I have read many Stuart Woods books and this was by far the most believable as it was somewhat based on a real life situation. I will read both books that follow this one. Highly recommend this to anyone looking for something a little different to read. Nice change from the typical who done it books.
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