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    The Officers' Club

    By Ralph Peters

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    Spring, 1981. Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger. The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s…

    A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier… a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-off vet who seems to have no future… dueling drug gangs along the Mexican border… and the mutilated remains of a female lieutenant.

    Stunning, promiscuous, and brilliant at spotting the weaknesses in others, Jessie Lamoureaux may have been killed by a jealous lover, a drug smuggler—or a ghost from a life she hoped she had left behind.

    Was her murderer the Green Beret she betrayed? The captain whose marriage she shattered? The senior officer hoping to save her from herself? A female sergeant fighting for dignity in a man's world? Or a fellow lieutenant with a secret of his own?

    In this gritty tale of young men and women torn between the laws of the land and the laws of the heart, a dark journey leads from a moonlit beach in Mexico to mayhem in Iran—then back to a country looking for its soul.

    The Officers' Club captures the passions and confusion of the times, the reckoning due after a decade of indulgence—and the commitment of those who stayed in uniform through the bad years.

    As the military and society struggle to right themselves, their conflicts are embodied in the question:

    Who killed Lieutenant Jessie Lamoureux?



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJan 18, 2011
    ISBN9781429934749
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    Ralph Peters

    Ralph Peters is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former enlisted man, a controversial strategist and veteran of the intelligence world; a bestselling, prize-winning novelist; a journalist who has covered multiple conflicts and appears frequently in the broadcast media; and a lifelong traveler with experience in over seventy countries on six continents. A widely read columnist, Ralph Peters' journalism has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines and web-zines, including The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Harpers, and Armchair General Magazine. His books include The Officers’ Club, The War After Armageddon, Endless War, and Red Army. Peters grew up in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and studied writing at Pennsylvania State University. He lives and writes in the Washington, D.C. area.

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    • 5/5
      Brilliantly written. A strange tale, hard to categorize, harder to put down. Having served in the army in that exact period, it really took me back. It was so good that I need to put in the only flaw I saw: the book takes place in 1981, before DNA or even hair/fiber evidence (although the latter was just around the corner). So the crime scene precautions mentioned in the book were unlikely.
    • 4/5
      Lt. Roy Banks is questioned about the death of Lt. Jessica Lamoureaux but he doesn't know anything about the murder.Banks is having an affair with a captain's wife. He's part of a group that likes to party, called The Officers' Club.Vietnam is over and life in the military is somewhat relaxed. Banks goes around with his buddy, Lt. Jerry Massetto.Jessica arrives at a party with another officer. Later in the night she attempts to seduce Roy. He tells her that he's involved with someone and declines her advances. This seems to set her off and she develops a fixation on him.Roy wants nothing to do with Jessica and sees her as manipulative and calculating. She proceeds to sleep with most of the people in Roy's circle of friends.One night Roy gets a call that Jerry is in serious trouble in Mexico. After Roy is able to extricate Jerry, Jerry tells him that it was Jessie who set him up.Was this novel interesting? Yes in a dark way. It held my attention and described life as author James Ellroy may have done, dark, but true to life.The characters seemed caught in their fates and not able to change the direction of their lives. In this aspect, the novel reminded me of the realism movement that moved to the naturalistic movement of the early 20th century, made popular by Frank Norris, Upton Sinclair and Mark Twain. These characters weren't heroic, they didn't evoke sympathy but they did depict a slice of life.I also applaud the author for his treatment of one character who was one of the early AIDS victims of the 1970s.