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    The General

    Written by Patrick A. Davis

    Narrated by Jim Bond

    3.5/5

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    Set in present-day Washington, where power and ambition have attained new levels of insanity, The General reaches back in time to peel the layers of evil from a brilliantly concealed episode of treachery, death, and deception during the Vietnam era.

    The investigators probing the brutal murder of the Air Force Chief of Staff know that the General's death had been precipitated by a gruesome act of Vietcong torture - death by a thousand cuts. 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 higher levels of the US 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 will have shocking consequences.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 28, 2009
    ISBN9781423391562
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    The General
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    Patrick A. Davis

    Patrick A. Davis is the national and New York Times bestselling author of six previous novels: The Commander, A Slow Walk to Hell, A Long Day for Dying, The Colonel, The General, and The Passenger. He is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and the Army Command and General Staff College, and a former Air Force major who flew during the Gulf War. He helped plan and direct U-2 surveillance operations for Operation Desert Storm and flew eleven combat sorties. He is a former pilot with a major airline.

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    • 3/5
      I feel a little like I've been riding in a car with faulty brakes, they keep being viciously applied and then suddenly released allowing the car to resume at high speed, only to have the brakes suddenly applied once again. The plot will be going along nicely, the writing suitably intricate, and then, bang, something stupid and I'm wondering, why am I listening to this?

      Part of the problem comes from the nature of all conspiracy stories, true or otherwise: you have to suspend all rational belief as the number of people who are needed to control the conspiracy spirals totally out of control. The stock characters will be familiar to those of us who read these books. The three who finally unravel the case, against all odds, of course, are a poster for diversity: a Korean police lieutenant, an African-American (of lower rank, naturally, but extremely talented) and a good old American white boy lieutenant colonel with a square jaw who has a lovely wife and 2.5 children. The villains are straight out of central casting.

      Rereading what I just wrote makes it sound like I didn't like the book. Not true. It's just a little too formulaic, but as this was one of Davis's earlier books, perhaps he became more fluent in later works. As with any in this genre, my expectations weren't high. I just wanted to be entertained. It was a good book to listen to while mowing.

      Plot summaries are everywhere, no need for me to.