Chiefs is the first novel in the Will Lee series by Stuart Woods . It was first published in 1981 by W. W. Norton & Company . The novel takes place in the fictional town of Delano, Georgia, over three generations, as three different police chiefs attempt to identify a serial killer operating in the area. It is Woods' first published novel. As the author explains in a note, it was inspired by the story of his grandfather's death while serving as a police chief. Chiefs was made available in e-book format on January 23, 2012.
77-519: Stuart Woods (born Stuart Chevalier Lee ; January 9, 1938 – July 22, 2022) was an American novelist, known best for his first novel Chiefs and his series of novels featuring protagonist Stone Barrington. Woods was a Georgia native, entered the advertising business after college graduation and lived in England and Ireland for almost a decade. He became an accomplished and competitive sailor. His interest in this pastime and his need for financing it provided
154-555: A Hinckley T38 R power boat and was a partner in an 85-foot antique motor yacht, Enticer , built in 1935 and fully restored. Married to Jeanmarie (née Cooper) in January 2013, the couple lived with a Labrador retriever named Fred in Key West , Florida, on Mount Desert Island , in Maine, and Santa Fe , New Mexico. Note: the following titles are not written by Stuart Woods. They continue to develop
231-514: A cameo by Stuart Woods as "Pope". It was nominated for 3 Emmys . It varies from the novel mostly in the Tucker Watts section in that there is not as much focus on Billy Lee being a potential running mate for JFK in the 1964 presidential election. Tucker's true identity is not discovered by the NY Times reporter, but after the election Tucker reveals his identity to Billy by remembering word for word
308-556: A search warrant , Foxy follows, intending to kill him, and so is nearby when Will, diverted by a problem involving the Coles, a black family that had once worked for him, is shot and killed by the black father, who is in the grip of a malaria-induced delirium. Will Henry dies as the shooter's teenage son, Willie, is escaping to relatives in another town. The Second Chief: Sonny Butts: The scene shifts to 1946. After World War II , Delano welcomes home its returning veterans, including Billy Lee,
385-603: A "reconciliation". Subsequently Akira Tsurukame released video material of his interviews with Bill King on the internet. Two installations in July 2006 at the Project 06 art exhibition in Galway referenced King. Response to Japanese Peace and Reconciliation was arranged in Swan House, and featured art-works by his daughter Leonie King and grand-daughter Heather Finn. The Lost at Sea installation
462-497: A "romantic" as a person " who is susceptible to charm" in addition to The Concise Oxford Dictionary 's definition of someone "given to romance, imagination ... visionary ... professing grandeur of picturesqueness or passion or irregular beauty to finish and proportion." Woods' first novel, Chiefs , was published in March 1981. The story was inspired by a police chief 's badge Woods had found in his grandmother's home. The badge
539-579: A British submarine on both the first and last days of World War II. Brought up by his mother and grandmother, King went to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth . He was first assigned to the battleship Resolution , and later became commanding officer of the submarine Snapper . He commanded three separate RN submarines in World War II, and was promoted to commander and awarded seven medals during
616-503: A Delano PO Box had attempted to purchase a pair of handcuffs from a police supplier. The box belongs to Foxy Funderburke, whom Will Henry had questioned after the two murders, since the bodies were discovered near Foxy's property. Other clues also point in Foxy's direction. Looking around Foxy's property, Will Henry notices the outline of what appears to be a freshly dug grave but, unbeknownst to him, he has been seen by Foxy. As he rushes to obtain
693-414: A fatal blow to Billy Lee's campaign, but then one of the agents trips on what proves to be a motorcycle handlebar protruding from the ground. As Foxy emerges from the house, armed and intending to kill Tucker and the agents, he is distracted by John Howell and is himself shot dead. The ensuing investigation determines that Foxy had tortured, sodomized, murdered, and buried at least forty-three young men over
770-613: A joint British-Dutch base at Ceylon , Telemachus sank the Japanese Kadai-class submarine I-166 in the Strait of Malacca on 17 July 1944. Telemachus tracked I-166 for 30 minutes, then fired a spread of six torpedoes. One torpedo hit, and sank the Japanese boat with 89 lives lost; five men on bridge watch survived to be rescued by the Japanese. During the war, King was promoted to commander, and awarded seven medals, including
847-415: A large sea creature (a whale or shark) damaged his boat about 400 miles (640 km) southwest of Fremantle . "Only his skill and heroic efforts were able to keep the vessel afloat until jury repairs could be made." King was below deck when he heard a shattering sound and saw the hull below the water line bulge inward and splinter. He rushed upstairs and heeled the boat so that the hole was lifted out of
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#1733104728605924-603: A letter mentions her being in Beirut in 1941–42. Leslie-King then became an ambulance driver in the French Army from 1944 to 1945. For the latter, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1945 by General Charles de Gaulle . As Anita Leslie, she wrote over a dozen books, including Love in a Nutshell (1952), The Remarkable Mr. Jerome: The Life and Times of Leonard Jerome, Sir Winston Churchill's American Grandfather (1954). In 1974 she wrote
1001-513: A man at the county fair the evening before, and Hugh Holmes is determined to fire him. Desperate to hang onto his job, Sonny heads to Foxy's property after getting a tip on a missing person, and catches Foxy digging a fresh grave for a recent victim. Momentarily distracted by the chance to save his reputation, Sonny is attacked by Foxy, who shoots him and buries him in the new grave with his police motorcycle. The Third Chief: Tucker Watts: The time frame changes once again, this time to 1963. Billy Lee
1078-732: A minefield or sunk by German depth charges . In 1941, King served on the T-class submarine Trusty in the Mediterranean Sea. On 4 December 1941 Trusty unsuccessfully launched torpedoes against a boat which may have been the Italian torpedo boat Orsa . From 21 July 1943 to August 1945, King was commanding officer of the T-class submarine Telemachus . Telemachus dropped off a special forces unit in western Malaya in October 1944. Operating from
1155-463: A new hobby of sailing , an activity that had interested him since the summer of 1966 in Castine, Maine , when friends had taken him on their boat. He joined Galway Bay Sailing Club, and learned to sail in one of the club's Mirrors . Woods purchased a Mirror for himself and named it Fred , after his dog. After tiring of cruising around bays, he entered novice competitions around Galway Bay . Unable to find
1232-501: A novel, based on an old family story that had been told to him when he was a child, and moved to Ireland. He moved into a converted barn on the grounds of Lough Cutra Castle near Gort, County Galway , and lived a near-solitary existence, except for spending two days a week in Dublin writing television commercials and print advertisements . Soon after settling in Ireland in 1973, Woods took up
1309-458: A patrol, but without taking damage. Between December 1939 and July 1940, Snapper sank six ships, mainly in the Skagerrak Strait. These include the tanker Moonsund , the merchant ship Florida , the minesweepers H. M. Behrens and Carsten Janssen , and the armed trawlers Portland and Cygnus . Snapper was later lost under command of Lieutenant Geoffrey Vernon Prowse, either in
1386-460: A persuasive case at the city council hearing and Watts is hired as chief, setting off a media frenzy over the first black hired to head a police force in the South. Tucker assumes his duties as chief welcomed by many residents but scorned by others. He makes a good impression on the overall community, however, and at first seems able to weather the problems he faces. But Tucker harbors a painful secret: He
1463-555: A reliable person to form his crew, Woods recruited any passing teenager to join him. He entered the week-long National Championships at Lough Derg , and finished 39th out of a fleet of 60. It was Woods' best result of the season. The following year, Woods sailed in as many races as he could leading up to the Mirror National Championships in Sligo . After retiring from the first race, he finished in 25th place out of 70 boats in
1540-466: A retired Army major and Florida police chief recruited to become a CIA operative; Ed Eagle, a Santa Fe defense lawyer; William Henry Lee IV, a United States senator from Georgia who is elected President of the United States ; and Rick Barron, a police detective who becomes a security officer and later chief of production for a Hollywood movie studio in the 1930s. All of Woods' novels take place in
1617-571: A strong cast of recurring characters such as his ex-partner Dino Bacchetti, frequent use of the restaurant Elaine's on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City as a setting, and Stone's frequent exploits with women, travel, and fine dining. Stone, like Woods, was also an experienced pilot and frequent references are made to his aircraft. In addition to Stone, Woods authored several other character-focused series, including Holly Barker,
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#17331047286051694-530: A while, the Kings lived in a hunting lodge outside Oranmore village, designed by Bill, and built while he and Anita went on a "world sailing cruise." To help combat his wife's asthma , King developed an organic farm and garden to feed his family. Both Anita Leslie 's mother and grandmother had suffered asthma. By 1967, King was intent on sailing around the world by himself. He had a boat built for this purpose at Souter's yard at Cowes, Isle of Wight . King's boat,
1771-537: A year and subsequently increased that to three novels a year, at the request of his publishers. In 2014, he started publishing four times a year, in January, April, June/July, and October. Woods was a licensed, instrument-rated private pilot and bought a new Cessna Citation Mustang , his first jet airplane. He was the launch customer of the Cessna Citation M2 , taking delivery of the plane in December 2013. He owned
1848-423: Is a quick success as a police officer, but rumors of abuses at the police station are heard. When the chief dies, Sonny is named his replacement. Examining old police files, Sonny comes across Chief Lee's notes on the two murders in the 1920s. He also begins to track the last known sightings of a number of young men, likely runaways, in the years since and notices a geographical pattern in the disappearances: Delano
1925-475: Is at their center. Seeing in Will Henry's notes a reference to interviewing Foxy Funderburke, Sonny decides to keep an eye on Foxy as a possible suspect. Sonny is undone by his virulent racism and propensity to violence. After he beats and kills a local black businessman, a grand jury is empaneled for the purpose of indicting him, though perjured testimony lets him off the hook. But Sonny was also observed beating
2002-438: Is in fact Willie Cole, whose father killed Chief Lee decades earlier and who, so far as Delano knows, died in an accident not long after fleeing. Tucker is deathly afraid of being discovered and considers killing a man who recognizes him. After coming to his senses, he relaxes and, like Sonny Butts, begins to organize old police files. He, too, reads Chief Lee's report on the old murders and observes Sonny Butts's notations regarding
2079-466: Is now Georgia's lieutenant governor and is planning to run for governor in the next election. Hugh Holmes asks Billy's help in searching for a new chief, who will now supervise six officers. An integrationist, Billy is alerted to the résumé of Major Tucker Watts, a retiring Army MP , who is black. Mindful that Delano has yet to hire a black officer, let alone a chief, Billy decides to forward Watts's résumé to Holmes and recommends his hiring. Holmes makes
2156-743: The Cruising Club of America awarded King the Blue Water Medal in recognition of his feat. That same year, Galway Blazer II was sold to Peter Crowther, landlord of a Devon pub. Crowther wrote a book about his experiences with the boat, which was lost on 24 June 1996 during the tenth Singlehanded Transatlantic Race from Plymouth , England, to Newport, Rhode Island in the USA. In September 2007, King and his daughter Leonie, still lived at Oranmore Castle . His life's experiences continued to attract media attention, from film to music to art installation. He
2233-586: The Golden Apple , Golden Shamrock , and Golden Delicious , and "Harp" as it has long been used as a symbol of Ireland. Woods, King, and their third crewmember, Shirley Clifford, left from Portsmouth, England , for the Azores in August 1975. Clifford, who had complained of feeling ill the day before the race began, continued to feel worse, so Woods and King dropped her off on a coast guard boat near Plymouth, England , on
2310-662: The Royal Navy : Snapper , Trusty , and Telemachus . He patrolled the North Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Far East. At the outbreak of the war, King and Snapper were sent to patrol the North Sea . King was commanding officer on Snapper from 16 April 1939 to April 1940. On 3 December 1939, Snapper sustained a direct hit from a British aircraft while returning to Harwich after
2387-638: The School of Military Engineering , Chatham. He received his commission as a second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in 1894. Prior to World War I , his postings included Saint Lucia in the 1890s, where the Engineers constructed gun emplacements and fortified coal stations, and South Africa, where the Engineers built blockhouses (designed by Major S. R. Rice , RE) during the Anglo Boer War . De Courcy King
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2464-590: The 1300 miles back to Ireland single-handedly to meet the OSTAR's qualifying cruise requirement of a minimum of 500 miles. Upon his return to Ireland in the late fall of 1975, Woods appeared on the Irish version of To Tell the Truth with Ron Holland and John McWilliam. All three men claimed to be Woods, and a panel had to guess who was lying. Only one of the four panelists guessed correctly. Preparing for his OSTAR race, he petitioned
2541-540: The City on the occasion of his death in 2022. Commander Bill King Executive officer : Commander William Donald Aelian King , DSO & Bar , DSC (23 June 1910 – 21 September 2012) was a British naval officer, yachtsman and author. He was the oldest participant in the first solo non-stop, around-the-world yacht race , the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race , and the only person to command
2618-755: The DSO on 9 May 1940 for "daring, endurance and resource in the conduct of hazardous and successful operations in His Majesty's Submarines against the enemy", and the Distinguished Service Cross on 6 September 1940 "for bravery and determination during arduous and successful patrols in H.M. Submarines" both whilst in command of Snapper . A bar was added to his DSO on 16 January 1945 "For outstanding courage, skill and determination in one of H.M. Submarines in successful patrols in Far Eastern waters" (specifically
2695-556: The OSTAR Committee to be considered an Irish entry, as although he was an American, he had been living in Ireland for some time, had learned to sail from Irish yachtsmen on Irish boats, and his yacht was Irish designed and built. The committee agreed to allow him to be entered under Irish colors . Woods wrote an account of his OSTAR experience, and was introduced to Stanford Maritime, a London-based publishing house specializing in nautical books, by Ron Holland. Blue Water, Green Skipper
2772-426: The OSTAR, Woods met with publishers about writing a book about his experience in the OSTAR, organized sponsorship for the races, and sent invitations and press releases about the launch of his yacht to the local and national Irish media, RTÉ , The Observer , and Yachting Monthly . Golden Harp was launched June 4, 1975. "Golden" was chosen so the boat followed the naming tradition of Ron Holland's other designs,
2849-672: The Royal Navy at Gibraltar to supply the 8th Submarine Squadron . After seven months, he was transferred to Starfish , then to Narwhal , before being sent to Portsmouth for the Submarine Command Course at HMS Dolphin . Having successfully qualified to command a submarine, a four-month stint aboard the submarine depot ship Titania followed, before , in May 1939, King travelled to Malta to take command of Snapper . During World War II, King served in three submarines of
2926-457: The biography of Francis Chichester , the first person to sail around the world single-handedly with only one stop. The Kings had two children. After the war, King took up farming and was an avid fox hunter, as was his wife. In 1946, the Kings bought Oranmore Castle , a 15th century Norman keep built on Galway Bay Ireland for £200. Other sources report that Anita Leslie-King was given the castle by her mother, who had bought it in 1946. For
3003-539: The book were printed in hardback, but Norton did little to promote it. Woods contracted with Bantam Books to print the paperback edition. In 1983, Chiefs was adapted into a television miniseries of the same name , starring Charlton Heston , Danny Glover , Billy Dee Williams , Keith Carradine , Brad Davis , Stephen Collins , Paul Sorvino , Lane Smith , Paula Kelly and John Goodman , with production filming taking place in Chester, South Carolina . CBS broadcast
3080-775: The book; 91 establishments in England, 13 in Scotland, eight in Wales, and 26 in Ireland. The two places in the British Isles that he did not visit were Northern Ireland , saying that he did not feel comfortable recommending any place where he was afraid to visit, and the Channel Islands due to a lack of available time. Originally titled A Lover's Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland Woods realised married couples may feel alienated, and changed it to A Romantic's Guide ... , defining
3157-450: The conversation they had on the day Billy's family left the farm and moved to town. Production filming took place in Chester, South Carolina . In 2014, a celebration of the filming of Chiefs was organized in Chester by Catherine Fleming Bruce in collaboration with local organizations. Among the presenters was author Stuart Woods. The Chester newspaper reprinted coverage of Woods' visit to
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3234-406: The crime had a strong sexual component, and that while the boy had not yet been sodomized, the assault on him could have gone further had the boy not evidently escaped. Will Henry conducts a thorough investigation but is frustrated in his attempts to locate the killer, not least because the uncooperative Skeeter Willis, the sheriff of Meriwether County, of which Delano is a part, insists that the boy
3311-590: The decades. John Howell discovers Tucker's true identity but decides to keep it a secret. The novel ends as Hugh Holmes, pleased for Billy's success in the election but crushed by the revelations about Foxy and the shame the murders will bring to the city he did so much to build, is suffering a potentially fatal heart attack. Chiefs was made into a CBS miniseries in 1983 starring Charlton Heston as Hugh Holmes, Keith Carradine as Foxy, Wayne Rogers as Will Lee, Brad Davis as Sonny Butts, Stephen Collins as Billy Lee, Billy Dee Williams as Tyler (Tucker) Watts and
3388-522: The fall of 1974, Woods's grandfather died and bequeathed him enough money to buy a yacht suitable for the race. He ordered a Golden Shamrock -based yacht from Ron Holland , and worked with him on designing the interior suitable for single-handed racing and Woods' personal needs. Since his previous sailing experience consisted of "racing a 10-foot plywood dinghy on Sunday afternoons against small children, losing regularly", Woods spent 18 months learning more about sailing and celestial navigation, while his yacht
3465-610: The incentive to write for publication. Woods’ initial literary efforts focused on sailing and expanded to include reviews of numerous British restaurants, inns and hotels. His seminal work Chiefs , inspired by his grandfather, a police chief, was adapted for television. Woods’ prolific Barrington series features the detective-lawyer, aided by a recurring cast of supporting characters, who handles lucrative cases which his law firm otherwise would rather not be associated with. Woods broadened his pastimes to include piloting and yachting, and maintained residences in several states. Stuart Woods
3542-462: The job. Will Henry is unschooled as a policeman but is honest and determined to do the job well. Not long after he assumes his new responsibilities, the dead body of a young man is found naked at the bottom of a cliff. A medical examination concludes that the boy died from a broken neck as a result of his fall but also that he had been tortured—cuffed and beaten with a rubber hose—for some time before his death. The medical examiner tells Will Henry that
3619-587: The late chief's son, a young lawyer who served as a bomber pilot in Europe, and Sonny Butts, a decorated Army infantryman. Billy has become a protégé of Hugh Holmes and the two men decide to launch Billy into politics by having him run for Holmes's seat in the Georgia State Senate, from which the banker intends to retire. Sonny lands a position on the Delano police force, which now consists of a chief and two officers. He
3696-475: The means to finance the boat. King was sponsored by the Daily Express and Sunday Express newspapers. One of the shortcomings of the boat was that it had neither guard rails or shrouds to hold on to. King solved this problem with a steel wire that stretched from bow to stern , to which he clipped a harness. His method was then copied by fellow racers Loïck Fougeron and Bernard Moitessier . King started
3773-526: The miniseries over three nights, and it was nominated for three Emmy Awards and one Eddie Award . Its success sparked interest in the paperback, and Woods was awarded the Edgar Award in the "Best First Novel" category from the Mystery Writers of America . In 2014, a celebration of the filming of Chiefs was organized in Chester by Catherine Fleming Bruce in collaboration with local organizations. Woods
3850-418: The oldest participant in what was the first organised round the world solo yacht race. In Deep Water , King explained that he joined the race as a means of recovering psychologically from fifteen years of service in submarines. This, he said, had left him "a nervous wreck". He had planned to sail around the world before he heard of the race, which "sort of caught up with me." An aunt's legacy provided him with
3927-410: The pattern of subsequent disappearances. Building on the work of his two predecessors, Tucker also begins to suspect the now-aged Foxy Funderburke and makes inquiries about him. A confluence of events distracts Tucker, including his own arrest on trumped-up charges and Billy Lee's race for governor, in which Tucker's hiring becomes an issue. These problems leave him inclined to do nothing about Foxy for
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#17331047286054004-669: The race on 24 August 1968. During the race, King lived on raw food, such as dried fruit stirred into almond paste and green sprouts that he grew on board. He read through the New Testament , the Qur'an , and Edwin Arnold 's 1880 Buddhist writing, The Light of Asia , as well as "all the best novels, such as Tolstoy " . He said that he did not get depressed during the journey, because of the beauty surrounding him. "You are...alone with God...there's no opportunity to sin". King lost radio contact during
4081-524: The race. On 31 October, Galway Blazer II capsized in 50-foot (15 m) waves northeast off Gough Island while King rested, breaking both masts. King had to be towed to Cape Town , South Africa. In 1969, King again tried and failed to circumnavigate in Galway Blazer II . In 1970, he was ready for another attempt, again using Galway Blazer II . Ill-health and hull damage forced him to put ashore at Australia. After departing on 12 December 1971,
4158-412: The same universe, and characters frequently appear in other series. Woods has published a memoir, a travel book, and 44 novels in a 37-year career, and had 29 consecutive The New York Times best sellers in hardback. Two completed novels were awaiting publication in January and April, 2011, and he then signed another three-book deal with Putnam. At one time in his literary output, Woods wrote two novels
4235-502: The second day of the race. They arrived in Horta after sailing 1400 miles for 15 1 ⁄ 2 days. They were the smallest and last boat to finish, other than four boats that had retired from the race, but were disqualified for not competing with the full crew complement that had begun the race. King returned to Ireland almost immediately, but Woods spent a month in Horta before sailing Golden Harp
4312-456: The second race, and finished eighth in the third race. The fourth race was cancelled due to high winds and the number of teenaged entrants. He finished the event 29th out of 70 boats, and his crewmate and he were given a special prize for being the oldest and heaviest crew. For the rest of the season, he sailed around Ireland with a friend on a Snapdragon 24, and decided to compete in the 1976 Observer Single-handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR). In
4389-476: The sinking of I-166 ). In 2006, he received an eighth medal, the Arctic Emblem. King ended his Royal Navy career as executive officer of the submarine depot ship Forth , an appointment he held from 1 September 1945 to April 1946. His formal retirement came on 9 May 1948. On 1 January 1949, King married Anita Leslie, a divorcée, whose full name was Anita Theodosia Moira Leslie Rodzianko 1914–1984). She
4466-568: The story lines created by Woods. -These novels also feature Stone Barrington- Note: the following titles are not written by Stuart Woods. They continue to develop the story lines created by Woods. Unintended Consequences Chiefs (novel) The First Chief: Will Henry Lee: The novel opens in 1919, when the growing town of Delano, Georgia , hires its first police chief. The city council, led by banker and prominent investor Hugh Holmes, chooses farmer Will Henry Lee over Foxy Funderburke, an eccentric, wealthy dog breeder and gun collector, for
4543-498: The subject of print media articles, an exhibition, and video interviews. Tsurukame, son of the chief engineer who perished with I-166 , in 2004 sought out King. King, Tsurukame, and Katja Boonstra, whose father was killed when I-166 sank the Dutch submarine K XVI , together planted a tree at Oranmore Castle to honour the fathers of the latter two. The local paper, The Galway Advertiser , dubbed their threeway meeting at Oranmore Castle
4620-555: The time being. Then John Howell, a reporter for The New York Times , convinces Tucker to take his evidence to the FBI and obtain a search warrant through them. Because Tucker's evidence is totally circumstantial, the FBI only reluctantly agrees to issue the warrant, which is limited to observation (no digging, prying up floorboards, etc.) When Tucker and federal agents search Foxy's property and find nothing at first, Tucker fears that he might have dealt
4697-466: The two-masted Galway Blazer II , a cold-molded plywood schooner , was specially designed for him by Angus Primrose . It is not certain whether the boat was named after The Galway Blazers , a local fox hunting club in Galway, Ireland, which dates to 1839. Based on boats he had seen in China, the 42-foot (13 m) schooner had a junk rig (a sail stiffened by battens). In this regard Galway Blazer II
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#17331047286054774-423: The war. King not only survived World War II, but succeeded in a singlehanded circumnavigation in 1973 on his third attempt. During the latter journey, he managed to reach port despite a collision with a large sea creature 400 miles (640 km) southwest of Australia. William Donald Aelian King was born to William Albert de Courcy King and Georgina Marie MacKenzie in 1910. King's great-grandfather, William King ,
4851-469: The water. He had to hang over the side and submerge himself to carry out emergency repairs with material that included thirteen ropes, sticky tape, collision covers, sheet copper, and sponge rubber. Then he had to fix the inside of the hull as well. After three days of work, he was able to return to Fremantle, "barely able to limp into port". The 1970 journey was eventually successful, with King completing his global circumnavigation on 23 May 1973. In 1975,
4928-581: Was Chair of Mineralogy and Geology at Queen's College, Galway . He was appointed when the College first opened in 1849. William King was the first to argue that Neanderthals were a species separate from modern humans. King's father, William Albert de Courcy King, was born in 1875. He married Georgina Marie, daughter of a "Mr. D. F. MacKenzie, of Collingwood Grange, Camberley , Surrey" in June 1908. De Courcy King attended Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and then
5005-566: Was a collaboration between Galway-based Cane 141 , who set stories told by Bill King to electronic music, and visual artist Roisin Coyle. The latter installation has since been exhibited in Dublin , and in May 2007 at Grace Exhibition Space in New York City. In 2009, Bill King's great nephew Luke Leslie produced the short film King of the Waves , which dramatised King's solo circumnavigation and encounter with
5082-483: Was a formidable woman who learned to ski at the age of 75 and still sailed in her eighties. After preparatory school , at the age of twelve, King was sent to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth , in Devon . In the 2006 documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race; Deep Water , King said that he had been a boxer and a "champion long-distance runner" in his youth. From December 1927 to April 1930, King
5159-484: Was among the presenters. The Chester newspaper reprinted coverage of Woods' visit to the city on the occasion of his death in 2022. Woods' most prolific series of novels focus on Stone Barrington, a former NYPD detective turned lawyer, who is of counsel to a prestigious law firm and handles sensitive cases for the firm's prominent clients, but cases with which the firm nonetheless does not wish to be publicly associated. As such, Barrington commands exorbitant fees, and
5236-593: Was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 while a major, during the First World War , serving later as Lieutenant-Colonel with the 36th (Ulster) Division in Belgium. He was killed on 27 May 1917 at the age of 42, and lies buried at Dranoutre Military Cemetery in Belgium. As a result of his father's death, Bill King was brought up by his mother and grandmother. His MacKenzie grandmother
5313-578: Was being built in Cork . He gained more boating experience by sailing from Ireland to England as part of the crew on STY Creidne , a training ship purchased by the Irish government for the Irish Naval Service , Irish Mist II , Ron Holland's Golden Apple , and as many other yachts that would accept him, amassing 1200 miles of offshore experience. He entered the August 1975 Multihull Offshore Cruising and Racing Association (MOCRA) Azores Race and asked fellow Galway Bay Sailing Club member Commander Bill King to join him. To finance his MOCRA Azores Race and
5390-501: Was born in Manchester, Georgia , and graduated in 1959 from the University of Georgia , with a Bachelor of Arts in sociology. After graduation, he enrolled in the Air National Guard , spending two months in basic training before moving to New York City, where he began a career in the advertising industry. Towards the end of the 1960s, Woods emigrated to England and lived in Knightsbridge , London while continuing to work in advertising. After three years in London, Woods decided to write
5467-565: Was filmed for two documentaries about the Golden Globe Race; the 1960s BBC short Golden Globe – Lone Sailor Round the World Race and 2006's Deep Water . His war experiences still fascinate documentary film makers. King was interviewed for two planned productions, a 24 minute episode entitled "To Honour and Peace" for the proposed series entitled Bravery Beneath the Waves , and for The Stick & The Stars: The Life & Times of Commander Bill King . Most recent attention arises from King's interaction with Akira Tsurukame and Katja Boonstra-Blom –
5544-461: Was killed by some of the many transients in the area at the time. Will Henry is unconvinced, but eventually runs out of leads. He believes that a second murder, taking place some four years later and just outside his jurisdiction, is connected to the first but has no real proof and no real authority to pursue the matter. Finally, Will Henry hears from Skeeter Willis about a young runaway who might be passing near Delano and also learns that someone with
5621-513: Was posted to the battleship Resolution , which served in the Mediterranean . During this time he became a midshipman . From June 1932 to January 1934, he was posted to the submarine Orpheus , which served near China. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1932. In April 1935, King was appointed first lieutenant of the service vessel Pigmy , formerly the Polish sailing vessel Iskra , used by
5698-559: Was published in 1977. The American publishing rights were sold to W.W. Norton . Woods' second book was to be written about the 1977 Round Britain Yacht Race, but the book was cancelled because of light winds and calms during the race. He persuaded his publishers to allow him to change the scope of the book, and spent the summer driving 12,000 miles around Great Britain and Ireland, writing a guidebook to country restaurants, inns, and hotels. He visited over 150 establishments, and included 138 in
5775-574: Was similar to Jester , the junk-rigged Folkboat used by former Royal Marine Colonel Herbert Hasler in the first single-handed cross-Atlantic race ( OSTAR ). King, Hasler and Primrose had "teamed up" to design the boat, which was displayed "at the London Boat Show in January 1968". King's intention to sail around the world was overtaken by the institution in March 1968 of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race . Aged 58, King became
5852-447: Was stained with blood and pockmarked by buckshot. It had belonged to his grandfather, who died wearing it 10 years before Woods was born. He submitted the first 100 pages and an outline to three publishers, all of whom turned him down, before W. W. Norton bought the publishing rights for $ 7,500. He later stated it was a mistake to sell the book unfinished, as he could have gotten much more money had it been completed. About 20,000 copies of
5929-677: Was the eldest child of Sir John Randolph Shane Leslie, 3rd Baronet (aka Shane Leslie ), and his wife Marjorie Ide, the Vermont -born daughter of the US ambassador to Spain. Bill and Anita probably met in Lebanon in 1943, where King served for 5 months as executive officer of the submarine base at Beirut . She was on a skiing trip after doing duty in Africa in the Motor Transport Corps in 1940–42, although
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