![]() ![]() ![]() The General's Daughter is a far more complex book than just "a murder mystery", as DeMille writes in a long and interesting foreword to this edition. This was one of those books where I kept manufacturing manual tasks so I could keep on listening. And yet there was simply no good place to stop listening - ever. For this one, I knew 'who done it', I even knew why. It's always funny how differently a book comes off when you read it yourself, as compared to having it read to you by someone as excellent as Scott Brick. It's an amazing story, start to finish - gripping and tense, but still funny, especially when DeMille's trademark smart-ass protagonist cuts loose. I didn't see the 1999 film, but picking this one to listen to was one of my best ideas, ever. Having been disappointed by some of the more recent DeMille books, I decided to listen to this one, in spite of having read it at least twice since it was published in 1992. One of DeMille's best, an American classic ![]()
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