The General's Daughter

The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The story takes you through dark and devious routes, drags through the underbelly of a military establishment to places you hate to discover. When you think this will be the last twist in a tale of gruesome discoveries, you get the final knockout punch that is definitely worth staying up all night for. Superbly-paced dialogue and exciting narrative make this a thriller I would recommend any time.

Excellent puzzlement. It kept me up late and innumerable nights. I figured out who killed the general's prototype unseasonably, but DeMille did some skillful misdirecting to make me question my supposition for an innumerable hundred messengers. Sneaky devil.

Some of the characters presently are perverted in a way I wouldn't await from DeMille, but they serve his purpose. He highlights some problems created by having males and skirts serving side by side in the service.

I loved the jocular joshing between investigators Paul Brenner and Cynthia Sunhill. The setup is matching DeMille's John Corey/ Kate Mayfield relationship. Take a wise-cracking, middle-aged joker, really good at his job but does not play by the rules. Dyad him with a momentous youngish, smarter, but less masterly skirt that keeps him humble and is handy with the snappy retorts. A little sexual strain and a lot of great dialogue. Works well for DeMille and his compilations.

Casual line in the whole book

" In fact, he is rather tight- passed, and if you put a lump of coal up his butt, he would produce a diamond within a week. "

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