Back in Nam
Up
Country
is a thriller with few thrills, a cross-country jaunt that goes nowhere and
sets up a finale that lands flat as a pancake after 700 pages.
Nelson
DeMille had the craft to deliver much better. God knows he had more experience to
draw upon than he wanted.
Paul
Brenner is a retired U. S. Army investigator summoned back into service in 1997
to solve a 29-year-old crime committed during the height of the Tet Offensive
in Vietnam. A Tet veteran himself, Brenner overcomes much reluctance to journey
back to the land where he lost both his innocence and many comrades, a nation
with its own deep wounds and a marked ambivalence about Americans.
