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Demille, Nelson Spencerville [ABRIDGED] (audio)
Random House Audio October 18, 199 0-679-43664-2 / 9780679436645 Audio Cassette used: good
4 cassette; read by Boyd GainesCannily combining some of the emotional appeal of Bridges of Madison County with a riveting cat-and-mouse game between a retired CIA man and a psychotic rural police chief, DeMille's latest novel (after The General's Daughter) has bestseller written all over it. Keith Landry, his Cold War intelligence job a victim of the Soviet collapse, returns to the little Ohio town where he grew up and begins to tinker with thoughts of reviving the family farm. A former sweetheart, Annie, despondent after Keith went off to Vietnam, had married aggressive, good-looking Cliff Baxter on the rebound, but Keith and Annie had never ceased to correspond. Now that he's back, the old interest is rekindled in both, but Baxter, now police chief and a womanizing petty tyrant, is fiercely jealous-and the novel takes off as a deadly struggle between a man trained in the arts of deception and one with all the built-in advantages of police power in a remote spot. In the process, DeMille works in some poignant reflections on the diminishing role of the American heartland and some acute satire at the expense of the Washington power elite; he also manages a nice combination of wryness and passion in his middle-aged lovers. The pacing is expert: there is plenty of time for leisurely scenes, but the narrative tension never flags, and the final third keeps up a crackling drive. There are a few pat and unconvincing moments, and the inclination of DeMille's characters to think aloud is an odd quirk, but no readers, once hooked, are going to complain-or do much else-until they have finished the book. 4
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DeMille, Nelson The General's Daughter
Grand Central Publishing November 16, 19 0-446-51306-7 / 9780446513067 Hardcover used; both book/jacket very good
After the wit and panache of his bestselling The Gold Coast , DeMille's latest effort may disappoint his fans. The author returns to his more customary stylish-suspense-novel mode but retains a smart-aleck narrator--here, Paul Brenner, of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. At Fort Hadley, Ga., Ann Campbell, daughter of the post commander, is found murdered under bizarre circumstances. Brenner learns that Ann's entire personal life, in fact, veered toward the bizarre; she even had a secret basement "playroom" inher home. Moral turpitude runs riot at Fort Hadley, and Brenner must wadethrough muck of all sorts to discover the killer's identity. Too much muck,as it turns out: the detective work becomes repetitious, and suspense is unfortunately in short supply. Brenner's one-liners have none of the punch of John Sutter's wry observations in The Gold Coast --indeed, the device ofa waggish narrator doesn't fit these proceedings; the wisecracks seem grafted on. So, too, does a resumed romance between Brenner and an old flame--wedon't get a good enough picture of either to care about whatever sparks might fly. Characterization in general is fuzzy, though DeMille captures theoften unquestioning regimen of life on a military base. One only wishes that his tale had more spirit and dash.
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DeMille, Nelson The Gold Coast
Grand Central Publishing March 1, 1991 0-446-36085-6 / 9780446360852 Mass Market Pa used: good
What happens to a priggish, WASPy, disillusioned Wall Street lawyer when aMafia crime boss moves into the mansion next door in his posh Long Island neighborhood? He ends up representing the gangster on a murder rap and evenperjures himself so the mafiosostet lc can be released on $5 million bail.That's the premise of DeMille's ( The Charm School ) bloated, unpersuasivethriller. Attorney John Sutter has problems that would daunt even Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby. His marriage is crumbling, despite kinky sex games with hisself-centered wife, Susan, who's the mistress of his underworld client Frank Bellarosa. The IRS is after Sutter, and his law firm wants to dump him.As a sardonic morality tale of one man's self-willed disintegration, the impact is flattened by its elitist narrator's patrician tones.
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DeMille, Nelson The Lion's Game
Grand Central Publishing November 1, 200 0-446-60826-2 / 9780446608268 Mass Market Pa used: good
John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed inNelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop hiswife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya.He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom and the colonel, but he aims hisrage at the infidels. The boy's got such a gift for terrorism he's earnedthe nickname "the Lion," and Boris, his vodka-sozzled, sex-addicted émigrémentor, knows precisely how to conduct a murder tour of America one step ahead of the police, the FBI, the CIA, and the ATTF (Anti-Terrorist Task Force), which combines members of all three. A pity Boris must die, but hey, he's an infidel too.
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