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Book Review of Spencerville

Spencerville
Spencerville
Author: Nelson DeMille
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of the General's Daughter and The Gold Coast comes his best novel yet. Keith Landry has seen the end of the cold war, a war that claimed his military career and his soul. Now he has come to Spencerville, a town in America's heartland--a town as tarnished as Landry himself.

Spencerville's main attraction for Landry is Annie Prentis, the love of his youth. Vietnam and a world gone crazy seperated them. Annie has long since married Cliff Baxter, the town's chief of police--a powerful, unfaithful, brutally possessive husband, a force more dangerous than any Landry has met on the fields of battle.

Landry has vowed: No more violence. No more killing. But now he has to fight one final, unavoidable battle that will violate his oath and calling upon all of his skills learned from a lifetime of military and intelligence service. He must rescue Annie from her sadistic husband, a man equally skilled in the tactics and techniques of death. He has two choices: a new life, or no life at all. An explosive confrontation that will decide the fate of three people gripped in a fatal triangle.