Long before the John Travolta film of The General's Daughter (which the author extols in the foreword), Nelson DeMille's seventh mystery was the breakout hit of his career. The rapid-fire dialogue and scenes are cinematic, and the storytelling puts most movies to shame. The book has three heroes: Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill of the army's Criminal Investigation Division and Capt. Ann Campbell, found dead with her underpants around her neck on the firing range at Fort Hadley, Georgia. Brenner and Sunhill are lowly warrant officers, but as investigators they can theoretically arrest their superiors--as long as their case is airtight. This ups the tension level, as does the fact that Brenner and Sunhill once had an adulterous affair.The chief problem, though, is too many suspects. Capt. Campbell, the daughter of the general who runs the base, is literally a poster woman for the New Army, a West Point grad and Gulf War hero who posed in a life-size recruitment poster. It's pinned up on her basement wall--and when the sleuths touch the poster it swings back to reveal a hidden playroom stocked with sex toys and videos of many army guys in pig masks and the captain in high heels. She was a high-IQ "two percenter"--and Brenner finds that two percenters often wind up on his desk as homicide suspects. Why is this one a victim? It has something to do with the collected works of Nietzsche on her bookshelf, corruption in high places, and the rag and bone shop of the heart. This is one racy read, and it crackles with authenticity. DeMille is a Vietnam veteran who does for military justice what John Grisham does for civilians. --Tim Appelo
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評分西點醜聞揭秘 有點軍隊版legal thriller的味道 難怪作者被喚作軍中grisham 可與電影好人無幾a few good men以及richard patterson的小說in the name of honour一起看:瞭解軍隊這個水潑不進針插不進的獨立王國 也可與龍紋女參看: 瞭解西方對女性的製度性歧視
評分西點醜聞揭秘 有點軍隊版legal thriller的味道 難怪作者被喚作軍中grisham 可與電影好人無幾a few good men以及richard patterson的小說in the name of honour一起看:瞭解軍隊這個水潑不進針插不進的獨立王國 也可與龍紋女參看: 瞭解西方對女性的製度性歧視
評分這個故事很棒,但隻被寫成瞭通俗小說,可惜。
The General's Daughter 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載