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Chiefs

"One bitter winter morning, the naked body of an unidentified boy is discovered in the woods. Suddenly all the hatred and passion raging beneath the surface of a once peaceful Georgia town threatens to explode. The obsessive hunt for the boy's brutal murderer ignites a search that will consume the lives of three police chiefs and their families. One chief is a courageous innocent. Another is a man of burning violence. The third hides a deadly secret."--BOOK COVER.

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  • ""One bitter winter morning, the naked body of an unidentified boy is discovered in the woods. Suddenly all the hatred and passion raging beneath the surface of a once peaceful Georgia town threatens to explode. The obsessive hunt for the boy's brutal murderer ignites a search that will consume the lives of three police chiefs and their families. One chief is a courageous innocent. Another is a man of burning violence. The third hides a deadly secret."--BOOK COVER."@en
  • "Spanning four decades and involving three successive police chiefs of Delano, Georgia, the manhunt for the serial killer of young boys exposes the hatreds, fears, dark secrets, and festering wounds of a seemingly ordinary small town. Reprint."@en
  • "For the people of Delano, Georgia, 1920 was a landmark year. That winter they elected their first police chief, built the first jail, and discovered the first body, beginning a forty-year manhunt that would embroil three generations of small-town police chiefs."@en
  • "Beginning in 1920, Chiefs spans 40 years, chronicling the experiences of three Georgia police chiefs who watch the world, their town and their jobs, change. At the heart of this is a 40-year-old mystery each chief must try to crack."
  • "For the people of Delano, Georgia, 1920 was a landmark year. That winter they elected their first police chief, built their first jail ... and discovered the first body--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 generations of small-town police chiefs in a remarkable manhunt that will expose the hatreds, fears, dark secrets and festering wounds beneath the surface of their sleepy God-fearing community. It's a seamy underbelly of corruption and perversion too terrible to imagine ..."
  • "When a teenaged boy is found dead, the chief of police in a small Georgia town in 1920 begins an obsessive hunt for the boy's tormentor, which leads him to two former chiefs of police, one a murderer and the other the concealer of a secret."
  • "When a teenaged boy is found dead, the chief of police in a small Georgia town in 1920 begins an obsessive hunt for the boy's tormentor, which leads him to two former chiefs of police, one a murderer and the other the concealer of a secret."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Keisatsu shoch⁻o"
  • "Keisatsu shochō"@ja
  • "Szeryfowie"@pl
  • "Chiefs"
  • "Chiefs"@en
  • "Szeryfowie"
  • "警察署長"
  • "Chiefs : Delano, Georgia, USA : roman"@sv
  • "Chiefs : Delano, Georgia, USA"
  • "Polit︠s︡eīskai︠a︡ saga : roman"
  • "Delano - en by i Georgia"@da

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