Authors: Stuart Woods

Tags: #Suspense, #Mystery, #Thriller

Worst Fears Realized (38 page)

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Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Woods…can write smart dialogue and knows how to pace.”

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Publishers Weekly

ORCHID BEACH

“An action-packed puzzler.”

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People
magazine “Page-Turner of the Week”

“Smooth and satisfying.”

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Publishers Weekly

“Barker—tough and tight-lipped—is fun to watch as she maneuvers among city politicians and wary colleagues, one of whom may be the murderer.”

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Entertainment Weekly

“An entertaining suspense story…. Barker is tough when she needs to be, and clever and persistent in following her hunches.”

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School Library Journal

SWIMMING TO CATALINA

“A heck of a plot, intrigue and cover-up between the first and last page.”

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San Antonio Express News

“This enjoyable, star-dusted plunge into Hollywood’s dark side agreeably melds ’90s glitz with classic noir.”

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People
magazine

“A fast-paced thriller…. A tight storyline that never loses focus while barreling to an exciting finale…. Woods…keeps readers interested.”

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Rocky Mountain News

“Outstanding…. After nearly two dozen books, Woods can still surprise readers, not only with clever plots and characters, but also with his knowledge of everything from aeronautics to yachtsmanship.”

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Booklist

UNDER THE LAKE

“Part detective story, part ghost story, part Southern gothic…. It scared the living hell out of me!”

—Stephen King

“Keeps you turning page after page.”

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Washington Post

“Another gem…. A book to read and get chills from on even the hottest day!”

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San Diego Union

“A marvelous book…. One of the best I’ve read in a long, long time.”

—Andrew Greeley

“A blockbuster certain to keep you turning the pages long into the night.”

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Macon Telegraph and News

“Never a dull moment as the story surges toward its exciting climax.”

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Publishers Weekly

DEEP LIE

“One of the most readable espionage novels since
The Hunt for Red October
!”

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Atlanta Journal & Constitution

“Vibrating with tension and nonstop action.”

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Publishers Weekly

“An amazingly original thriller!”

—Richard Condon, author of
Prizzi’s Honor

“Terrific.”

—Pat Conroy

“Hooks you fast with a first chapter so chilling it almost clanks cold chains on your spine…. A crackling good story.”

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San Francisco Chronicle

“A great idea for an espionage thriller…. I read the thing in one gulp.”

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Houston Chronicle

“A whale of a story.”

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New York Times

“High-stakes espionage…. A solid winner.”

—United Press International

DIRT

“Blackmail, murder, suspense, love—what else could you want in a book?”

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Cosmopolitan

“This slickly entertaining suspenser displays Woods at the top of his game…. Woods delivers a marvelously sophisticated, thoroughly modern, old-fashioned read.”

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Publishers Weekly,
starred review

DEAD IN THE WATER

“A man lost at sea, a small airplane crash, some impassioned sexual antics, and a tropical island…. One of [his] best…. Woods is a pro and this goes by like a summer breeze, with just enough heat to make you sweat.”

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Detroit News

“Fast-paced, filled with enough humor, sex and clever surprises all the way to the last page to make it thoroughly entertaining amusement.”

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Publishers Weekly

“Trying to make this neat tale last more than one sitting would be like staying up all night nursing a Godiva truffle.”

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Kirkus Reviews,
starred review

CHOKE

“Woods knows how to keep the narrative pace in overdrive…. An entertaining page-turner.”

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New York Times Book Review

“A real page-turner with surprises along the way.”

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Boston Globe

Books by Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington Novels

New York Dead

Dirt

Dead in the Water

Swimming to Catalina

Worst Fears Realized

L.A. Dead

Cold Paradise

The Short Forever

Dirty Work

Holly Barker

Orchid Beach

Orchid Blues

Blood Orchid

Will Lee

Run Before the Wind

Grass Roots

The Run

Standalone Titles

Chiefs

Deep Lie

Under the Lake

White Cargo

Palindrome

Santa Fe Rules

L.A. Times

Dead Eyes

Heat

Imperfect Strangers

Choke

Nonfiction

Blue Water, Green Skipper

A Romantic’s Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and England

Credits

Cover design and illustration by John Lewis

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

WORST FEARS REALIZED. Copyright © 1999 by Stuart Woods. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

“We Are Very Different People”: Stuart Woods on Stone Barrington. This interview originally appeared in
The Internet Writing Journal
(R), http://www.writerswrite.com. Copyright © 1997–2003 by Writers Write, Inc. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

EPub Edition © April 2006 ISBN:9780061797590

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1999 by HarperCollins
Publishers
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First HarperPaperbacks printing: April 2000

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