Grass Roots
Stuart Woods

In this early thriller from Stuart Woods, attorney Will Lee returns to his Georgia roots-and gets involved in a political firestorm that could make or break his career.

Will Lee, who readers will remember from earlier Woods novels, is now chief aide to Washington’s most powerful senator, Benjamin Carr, and is one of the United States Senate’s most respected staffers. Talented, experienced and honorable, he is well settled in his personal life, as well — son of a prominent southern political family and his father’s law partner, personally wealthy and secretly engaged to a brilliant woman, Katharine Rule who is a senior official at the Central Intelligence Agency. Readers will recall her from Deep Lie.

Then Will’s world spins off into an unpredictable orbit. Within the space of a few days, he becomes involved in the trial of a young man for a brutal, race related rape and murder; embroiled in a political race for which he is unprepared; estranged from the woman he loves; and, unknown to him, the object of unwanted attention from a shadowy and violent white-supremacist organization, The Elect.

Will is inexorably drawn into a sensational and vicious political brawl that kindles fires of racial hatred and moral outrage, balancing him precariously between national celebrity and career ending notoriety. Finally, his hidden affair with a dangerously beautiful young woman threatens to edge him into a yawning abyss of political oblivion, financial ruin and personal destruction.

First published July 1989 by Simon & Schuster.

(A Will Lee Novel)
Signet, August 2011
ISBN-10: 0451234308
ISBN-13: 9780451234308
576 pages Paperback (reprint)
$9.99

Also by Stuart Woods:
D.C. Dead, January 2012
Bel-Air Dead, December 2011
Son of Stone, October 2011
Strategic Moves, September 2011
Under the Lake, May 2011
Bel-Air Dead, May 2011
Santa Fe Edge, April 2011
Strategic Moves, January 2011
Lucid Intervals, December 2010
Kisser, September 2010
Santa Fe Edge, September 2010
Hothouse Orchid, May 2010
Lucid Intervals, April 2010
Kisser, January 2010
Loitering With Intent, December 2009
Hothouse Orchid, October 2009
Mounting Fears, September 2009
Deep Lie, August 2009
Hot Mahogany, May 2009
Loitering with Intent, April 2009
Mounting Fears, January 2009
Santa Fe Dead, December 2008
Iron Orchid, April 2006

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