Home from Iraq, a lieutenant kills his commanding officer was it selfdefense or premeditated murder? An enthralling novel of suspense about the high cost of war and secrets.
The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran now one of the army's most distinguished generals became best friends with Jack Gallagher, a fellow West Pointer who was later killed in Vietnam. Now a new generation of soldiers faces combat, and Lt. Brian McCarran, the general's son, has returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq.
Traumatized by wartime experiences he will not reveal, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, Jack's daughter, who is married to Brian's commanding officer in Iraq, Capt. Joe D'Abruzzo. But since coming home, D'Abruzzo also seems changed by the experiences he and Brian shared he's become secretive and remote.
Tragedy strikes when Brian shoots and kills D'Abruzzo on their army post in Virginia. Brian pleads selfdefense, claiming that D'Abruzzo, a blackbelt martial artist, came to his quarters, accused him of interfering with his marriage, and attacked him. Kate supports Brian and says that her husband had become violent and abusive. But Brian and Kate have secrets of their own, and now Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, will defend Brian in a highprofile courtmartial. Terry's cocounsel is Meg McCarran, Brian's sister, a brilliant and beautiful attorney who insists on leaving her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans and learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.
"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat....
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After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, 28yearold Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his 73yearold dad....
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Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10 yearold girl, is arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup....
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Diana Gabaldon's immensely popular Outlander saga soars to new heights with this seventh novel, which takes listeners on a breathtaking journey to 1777 America....
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A hilarious and moving memoir in the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron about a woman who returns home to her Mennonite family after a personal crisis....
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In June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left Afghanistan for the Pakistani border to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader. Less then 24 hours later, only one of those SEALs remained alive....
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The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China....
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Little Bee is an achingly human story set against the inhuman realities of wartorn Africa. Wrenching tests of friendship and terrible moral dilemmas fuel this irresistible novel.....
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That Old Cape Magic is a novel of deep introspection and every family feeling imaginable, with a middleaged man confronting his parents and their failed marriage and his own troubled one....
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Sixth grader Greg Heffley doesn't understand his annoying younger brother, obnoxious older one, or wellmeaning parents....
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Richard Poe, Gerard Doyle, Carol Monda, Johanna Parker, Ramon de Ocampo, Chris Sorenson, Patricia Floyd
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Let the Great World Spin follows the fortunes of a menagerie of New Yorkers through a day in 1974 the day of Philippe Petit's death defying tightrope walk between the newly built Twin Towers....
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The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse....
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In the monsoon season of 196869 at a base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mountains of Vietnam, a young and ambitious Marine lieutenant wants to command a company....
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A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home....
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Facing down mercenaries in Africa, Jason Bourne witnesses the death of an art dealer named Tracy Atherton. Her killing dredges up snatches of Bourne's impaired memory....
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Diana Gabaldon's immensely popular Outlander saga soars to new heights with this seventh novel, which takes listeners on a breathtaking journey to 1777 America....
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Why I Recommend
Audible by Alan Twigg
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