This one I plucked fairly randomly at the library, remembering those days before college, reading a lot of Tom Clancy and David Morrell -- something technical but with pace and good dialogue. Nelson DeMille wrote this one, and he's an author I've always liked, but have fallen out of touch with over recent years.
The General's Daughter was made into a movie starring John Travolta, which I haven't seen. This is one of the beauties of summer reading: grabbing something you don't know too much about, and seeing if it's any good! Well, this book's premise is simple: an important general's daughter has been murdered, and Paul Brenner is a military officer assigned to solve the crime. Of course, anyone could be a suspect, and it seems like the general's daughter had connections with a lot of important military men, none of which want those connections exposed.
This is a good story, and it doesn't pretend to be anything it isn't. DeMille's dialogue and narration moves fast, which is good because the book is thick. If you've seen a lot of Law and Order: SVU like I have, this won't be the most original crime you've ever heard of, but this is definitely worth reading.
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I don't see any blatant drawbacks with this one. I always enjoy DeMille's depictions of military culture. It seems believeable to me, but I can't have a strong opinion, since I don't have any military experience.
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