Attorney Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. He has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies, and to argue a case that has the potential to seriously damage his political career. For his hometown is a place with a dark secret, and the violent, evil forces here will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office. But Will Lee isn't about to back down, even though it may cost him his career—and his life.
Publishers Weekly Three compelling plot lines are woven into a tautly drawn suspense novel by the author of Chiefs ; not a whodunit or a howdunit, but a how-does-it-all-connect. After years as chief of staff for a venerable Georgia senator, Will Lee decides to run for the seat himself when a stroke cripples his mentor. Standing in his way are an ambitious governor in the Democratic primary and, possibly, a far-right fundamentalist in the general election. In addition, Will must interrupt his campaign to serve as the defense lawyer in a controversial race-murder trial, while elsewhere, a dedicated ex-cop pursues the head of a Klan-like vigilante group that's been carrying out gangland-style killings. Woods builds these plots to reach their climaxes--an election, a verdict and a shoot-out--simultaneously, and links the stories with an ingenuity that runs out of steam only in the final few chapters. Nonetheless, his headlong storytelling style is stoked with enough sex and violence to ignite a TV miniseries. Major ad/promo; author tour. (Aug.)

Grass roots : a novel

Woods, Stuart

John Sandford

Simon and Schuster

Longman Publishing

Penguin Group USA

1st Harper Premium pbk., New York, New York State, 2009

United States, United States of America

Will Lee, 1, New York, ©1989

Will Lee, 1, New York, 2011

Reprint, 2008

"A Will Lee novel"--Cover.

A Southern lawyer with political aspirations defends a white man accused of raping black woman and finds himself the target of a fiery TV evangelist and murderous white supremicist group.

Will Lee returns to his hometown, Delano, Georgia, to plan his Senate campaign strategies, only to become the object of hatred for a sinister white-supremacist group

2023-07-01