The general's daughter

Paul Brenner Series, Book 1

by Nelson DeMille

Hardcover, 454 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 1992 by Grand Central Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-0-446-51306-7
OCLC Number:: 26264064

(9 reviews)

Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.

Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the Army's "golden girl." And how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell's shocking secret life.

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technicat reviewed The general's daughter by Nelson DeMille

absorbing read, not a feel-good story, quite dark, but laced with sardonic humor

4 stars

This is my first DeMille book, but I read some of his short story work in a suspense anthology recently and thought I should check out more. Also, I saw the movie (which I barely remember, but I believe it had John Travolta). Anyway, this is a pretty good noirish story, not exactly a feel-good tale but laced with sardonic and self-deprecating humor. With the references to the protagonist's Vietnam background and the detailed military setting of the novel, there is an autobiographical feel (the author served in Vietnam). I was expecting a certain twist at the end and didn't get it, but I guess that's a twist in itself or maybe I was overreading it. Nonetheless it is a compelling read and I cranked through it, a few chapters each day.