Up Country by Nelson Demille

Up Country

by Nelson Demille

Time Warner, 2002, ISBN 0751528242, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages (see photographs)

“When Paul Brenner gets an email from his former commanding officer, Colonel Karl Hellman, asking to meet him at the Wall, Washington’s monument to the Vietnam dead, he knows it’s bound to be trouble.  The Wall contains the names of all the soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War – with a single exception.  One of the soldiers, a young lieutenant, didn’t die in battle: he was shot by his captain.  Now, thirty years later, Hellman wants Brenner to go back to Vietnam to find the only witness to the crime.
A death wish, survivor’s guilt – Brenner doesn’t know why he agrees to help.  Vietnam is not the place he left all those years ago, and as Brenner heads up country in pursuit of his target, he realises his search is far bigger than just finding one man...”