The General
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ISBN: 0399144110 / Publisher: Putnam Adult, March 1998
Tells the story of a colonel whose investigation into the brutal murder of a general reveals a conspiracy stemming from the Vietnam War and presents him with a serious moral dilemma
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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 only one 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 and 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 mines - and the answers he seeks have shocking consequences.
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