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Written in the first tense, main protagonist Paul Brenner, a retired Criminal Investigative Division officer for the U. S. army, is lured into an assignment where he is pulled out of retirement to investigate a long-standing murder during the TET offensive of 1968.
These three stories are cleverly interwoven by Nelson DeMille through the whole book as clues to the murder are added while the two lovers traverse modern day Vietnam from one battle field to the next and we do not find the results of any of them until the last chapter - or do we?
Up Country is a 2002 thriller novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It is the second novel featuring protagonist Paul Brenner. [1] [2]
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.
Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam thirty years before.
From sultry, sinful Saigon, where he meets beautiful American expatriate Susan Weber, to the remote, forbidding wilderness of up-country Vietnam, he will follow a trail of lies, betrayal, and murder—and uncover an explosive, long-buried secret.
Up country. by. DeMille, Nelson. Publication date. 2003. Topics. Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction, Government investigators -- United States -- Fiction, Americans -- Vietnam -- Fiction, Vietnam -- Fiction. Publisher. New York, NY : Warner Vision Books.
Back in Vietnam, Brenner meets expatriate Susan Weber, a woman as exotic, sensual, and dangerous as the nation of her voluntary exile. Brenner is plunged into a world of corruption, lethal double cross, and haunted memories-as he’s suddenly thrust back into a war that neither he nor his country ever really stopped fighting.
One of DeMille's most popular characters -- Paul Brenner, the brilliant, abrasive Army investigator first seen in The General's Daughter -- makes a welcome and long overdue second appearance in Up Country, an ambitious, enormously compelling novel of love, war, murder, and memory.
Retired warrant officer Paul Brenner, last seen in (1992), is asked by his former boss in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division to go to Vietnam to find Tran Van Vinh, a North Vietnamese soldier who witnessed the murder of one American by another.