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THE GENERAL January 1999
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In one of the most astonishing commercial
debuts in many years, Patrick A. Davis joins the ranks of some
of the best contemporary storytellers with The General, a novel
that reaches back in time to peel the layers of evil from a brilliantly
concealed episode of treachery, death, and deception during the
Vietnam War era. Set in present-day Washington, where power and
ambition have attained new levels of insanity, The General is
masterfully plotted fiction--where only the unexpected can truly
be expected. Death by a thousand cuts. The investigators probing
the brutal murder of the Air Force Chief of Staff know that the
General's death had been precipitated by a particularly gruesome
act of Vietcong torture. Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Jensen, the
officer assigned to the case, discovers that the General's death
is a link in a chain of hideous crimes, beginning with closely
guarded secrets of the Vietnam War and extending
now to the highest levels of the U.S. government. With lives,
careers--and history--in the balance, Jensen is caught between
blind allegiance to authority and a nobler, higher patriotism.
His path to the truth is strewn with minefields--and the answers
he seeks have shocking consequences. |
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The General is one of the most exciting first novels
I've read in a long time. Patrick Davis is the real thing. The General is everything you could want in a thriller.
Mysteries puzzling, the actions intense, and I could not stop turning
the pages. There was a prisoner of war camp in Vietnam called Cao Dinh, the very mention of which made the top brass freeze, and others in the Pentagon react very nervously. What happened there? What fearful tragedy hides behind falsified record books? General Raymond Watkins, the Air Force Chief of Staff, has been sent to Vietnam to look around, and presumably to lend his support to diplomatic moves for recognition of that country. Soon after his return, however, General Watkins is discovered dead in his quarters, tortured by means common to the North Vietnamese during the war. Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Jensen is the officer assigned to the murder investigation, but he finds a paucity of clues. The general's personal computer and those in his office were fed a virus, some of the hard drives even removed. Following the general's final phone call from his office, Colonel Jensen is led to a Vietnamese restaurant and ultimately to the murder of one of the owners. This is a fun book to read, for just when the reader thinks he or she knows who the murder mastermind is, that particular suspect turns up dead. But Colonel Jensen plods doggedly on, pursuing the few leads he has. There are lives, reputations, and careers at stake in this mystery, which finally becomes a test of the colonel's loyalty to the brass in the Pentagon versus his own brand of integrity and patriotism. Make note of this fine new writer - this military
thriller surely won't be his last." This well-received hc debut pitches Lt. Col.
Charlie Jensen into a chain of events that begins with the murder
of Air Force General Watkins - by a gruesome torture style used
in Nam by the Viet Cong - and reaches even higher. Davis
combines the military thriller with the mystery for a distinctive
read.
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