NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The gripping murder mystery about an upstanding military officer – the base commander’s daughter – who’s been leading an unsavory double life. When a professional military woman with a pristine reputation is found raped and murdered, a preliminary search turns up certain paraphernalia, and sex toys that point to a scandal of major proportions, The chief investigator is … major proportions, The chief investigator is reluctant to take the case when he learns that his partner will be a woman with whom he had a tempestuous affair and an unpleasant parting. But duty calls and intrigue begins when they learn that several top-level people may have been involved with the “golden girl” – and many have wanted her dead.
“DeMille is a master at keeping the reader hanging on to see what happens next.” – Associated Press
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An Army undercover agent, Paul Brenner, is called in to investigate the rape and murder of a noted General’s daughter. The daughter is a West Point graduate who conceals her bizarre and secret life.
The book will keep you on the edge of your seat as Brenner and his former lover, Cynthia Sunhill, uncover the truth hidden beneath the polish and brass of the military.
I’ve watched the movie based on Nelson DeMille’s The General’s Daughter many times, but until recently I never had the chance to read it. I was eager to do so, since I am the author of a mystery novel also involving with a military criminal investigator and some of the same themes DeMille covers in this mystery novel.
In The General’s Daughter, Paul Brenner, an investigator with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division, is working undercover at a fictitious Army base in Georgia when he is drawn into a case involving the murder of a female Army captain. The case is highly sensitive for two reasons: the victim was found on post naked and staked spread eagle to the ground, an apparent rape victim; the victim, Ann Campbell, is also the rising-star daughter of the fort’s commanding general, a hero of the first Gulf War with political ambitions.
DeMille blends a hard-boiled narration with a police procedural as he takes the reader deep into the lives of the officers who served alongside Captain Campbell. Brenner, a sardonic Vietnam veteran who is nearing the end of his Army career, is teamed with Cynthia Sunhill, a younger, idealistic rape investigator with whom he once had an affair. Together they dig beneath the starched and pressed Dress Green uniforms of the fort’s officer corps to undercover a not-too-well-hidden seediness that threatens to destroy dozens of careers, including the general’s. They also discover that Captain Campbell was as much predator as victim.
DeMille, himself a former Army officer and Vietnam veteran, explores many themes in this book. Officers are expected to live up to a high standard of honor, but in The General’s Daughter he shows that many fail in doing so. Written in 1992, not long after the military integrated the sexes, he explores an Army trying to cope with the still new concept of men and women serving side-by-side. Twenty years later, as the Pentagon deals with sex scandals at the military academies, on the battlefield, and among some of its highest ranking officers, the questions explored in this book are still looking for answers.
Great characters. Twists and Turns. Surprise among the Military you can’t believe, and don’t want to. Excellent Excellent!!!!!!
What’s not to like with this Author. I have read all of his books and I highly recommend them to anyone who loves a good book.
Love all his books
DeMille’s works are fast paced, sarcastic, and entertaining.
Nelson Demille is a favorite author of of mine, and The General’s Daughter is one of my favorites of his novels! It’s a page-turner you won’t be able to put down!
Fabulous, informative book. Should read.
One of the best books I have ever read!!
I love every book this author has written. This one is no exception!
I just liked it and it kept my attention.
Like all his books, this was a real page-turner that was hard to put down. Highly recommend all his books.
Like most of Demill’s books, this was a great read!