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Hothouse orchid [LP]

Special Agent Holly Barker returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, and faces off against an old nemesis--the man she brought charges against for sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape. The army officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and is now Orchid Beach's new police...

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Main Author: Woods, Stuart.
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009.
Subjects:
United States. > Central Intelligence Agency > Fiction.
Barker, Holly (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Intelligence officers > Fiction.
Police > Florida > Fiction.
Police chiefs > Fiction.
Florida > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Large print books.
Summary: Special Agent Holly Barker returns to her hometown of Orchid Beach, Florida, and faces off against an old nemesis--the man she brought charges against for sexual harassment, attempted rape, and rape. The army officer in question was acquitted of all charges, and is now Orchid Beach's new police chief. Will Holly return to the CIA? Or will she challenge her old nemesis for control of the Orchid Beach Police Department?
Item Description: "Thorndike Press large print basic."
"A Holly Barker novel."
Physical Description: 417 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781410417497
1410417492
Author Notes: Stuart Woods was born in Manchester, Georgia on January 9, 1938. He received a B. A. in sociology from the University of Georgia in 1959. He worked in the advertising business and eventually wrote two non-fiction books entitled Blue Water, Green Skipper and A Romantic's Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland. His first novel, Chiefs, was published in 1981. It won an Edgar Award and was made into a TV miniseries starring Charlton Heston. His other works include the Stone Barrington series, the Holly Barker series, the Will Lee series, the Ed Eagle series, the Rick Barron series and the Teddy Fay series. He won France's Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers. His autobiography, An Extravagant Life, was published in June 2022. Stuart Woods died on July 22, 2022, at his home in Lichfield, Connecticut. He was 84.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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