Hornet's nest
HORNET'S NEST
To begin with, although this book is considered to be a thriller, it is rather a book about the
personalities of the main characters. The main characters are unhappily married Judy Hammer
a police chief in Charlotte, Hammer's deputy 42-year-old volunteer policewoman Virginia
West and a young handsome volunteer reporter Andy Brazil, who is assigned to ride with
West while doing the casual patrol. It is story about the relationship between Andy Brazil and
Virginia West. Deputy chief Virginia West likes and respects her boss. But with an increasing
number of visiting businessmen being murdered in her city by a maniac who is painting his
victims bright orange, she finds it hard to accept Hammer's edict that a rookie reporter should