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Authors: Stuart Woods

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Booklist

“His best book since
Santa Fe Rules
.”

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Boston Globe

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

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

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

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

Other Books by
Stuart Woods

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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from 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.

ORCHID BEACH
. Copyright © 1998 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.

EPub Edition © NOVEMBER 2007 ISBN: 9780061826825

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