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Nelson DeMille is a brilliant storyteller. Though this brick of a book was over 700 pages, I couldn't put it down, for the sheer suspense of it all. I've met Vietnam Veterans and heard some stories when I was a teen. It was a horrible war, senseless to a lot of Americans and with age comes knowledge and wisdom. The shocking knowledge that anyone is capable of 'madness' follows the wisdom to understand the emotional stress of that type of war. DeMille has described his views and personal experiences nicely in this novel. However, I've heard factual stories that would give you nightmares for months, and these were closer to 'home'. I read somewhere that John Travolta might be doing this book as a film but that was many years ago. A production company still has the film rights but not sure what happened there. The first Paul Brenner book, The General's Daughter, was a great movie.

Needless to say, I'll be reading more of DeMille, but not for a while, as his novels seem to become longer and longer. One a year is good enough for me.