"Classic Gerald Browne--thrilling, exotic, sophisticated, and as always intriguing Another jewel from the master."
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A native of Long Island, Nelson DeMille played football and ran track in high school. He attended Hofstra University for three years before joining the Army, serving in Vietnam as a Second Lieutenant and infantry platoon leader in the First Cavalry Division. After returning home from the war, he graduated from Hofstra, married, had two children, and after a divorce, married for a second time. DeMille is a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, and American Mensa. While his more...
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1943 New York, New York, Middle Atlantic States, Northeastern States, United States,
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The introduction to the character Paul Brenner came in The General's Daughter, and to most that means John Travolta in the movie of the same name. This is the follow up and once again rumours abound that Travolta will reprise the role. Better book, better movie hopefully.
Paul Brenner is retired or sacked CID, Criminal Investigation Dept for the Army and Vietnam Vet. Paul is asked to return to Vietnam to investigate the possible murder of an American Lieutenant in the middle of one of the Vietnam war's bloodiest conflicts. Evidence the crime may rest with the only witness who wrote about what he saw to his brother, the letter later falling into the hands of a GI who eventually returns the letters to the VWA decades later. Paul is sent to Vietnam to interview the witness and his investigation leads him from the South of Vietnam to the North where the locals are still wary of Westerners and who haven't forgotten the years of conflict.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, its fast paced, witty and adventurous and at 850 pages as a paperback still quick to read as it's so hard to put down.
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