Nelson DeMille - Spencerville

Publication Date, October 1994
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The cold war is over, and Keith Landry, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, is forced into early and unwanted retirement. Restless, Landry returns to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The place has changed in the quarter century since Landry stepped off his front porch into the world, but two important people from his past are still there: Annie Prentis, his first love, and Cliff Baxter, the high school bully who became the police chief of Spencerville and Annie's possessive husband. They're all about to come together again - and rip Spencerville apart with violence, vengeance, and renewed passion.

"I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. Incorporates many of the qualities for which DeMille is famous: fast pace, believable characters, current events background, and dialogue so authentic it could have come from a fly on the wall."
-Toledo Blade

"Passion and politics, memory and desire...Imaginatively plotted...SPENCERVILLE is very much cut from the DeMille mold."
-Atlanta Journal & Constitution

"Intense, absorbing, suspenseful....An uncommonly strong plot, a thriller that transcends the genre."
-Washington Post Book World

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