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One of the last things that Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division-an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself having to do the last thing he ever wanted-return to Vietnam.
His mission: investigate a murder that took place during the war, thirty years before. But almost as soon as he returns to Vietnam, a country that still haunts him, he discovers that there is more to this investigation than a forgotten murder-much more. Brenner, former combat veteran, again finds himself in a battle for survival as he enters a world of corruption and double-crosses, where, for the second time in his life, he cannot distinguish friend from foe, and where his only allies are his wits and his bravery-and possibly a beautiful American expatriate named Susan Weber. She, like the country in which she's chosen to live, is exotic, sensual, and quite possibly dangerous.
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"Grunt's-eye detail and double-time pacing....DeMille is a muscular storyteller."
-People
"If it's suspense you want, and a riveting plot that moves at lightning speed through mine fields of murder, intrigue, and richly exotic landscapes, then UP COUNTRY is the book to read. Finely drawn characters, wickedly crisp dialogue, and brilliant twists that ride the story to its thrilling denouement could come only from Nelson DeMille, the master storyteller of our times."
-Linda Fairstein,
author of Final Jeopardy
"Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller...an insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people and its enemies."
-Orlando Sentinel
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- Debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list!
- Paul Brenner also appears in The General's Daughter
- A Main Selection of Book-of-the-Month ClubŪ and Doubleday Book ClubŪ
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