Book cover for Up Country by Nelson DeMille

Up Country

2002 Released
720 Pages
15-16 Hours
★ 4.01 16,355 ratings
Audiobook Unavailable
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Grand Central PublishingISBN 9780759526853

Brought back for one final mission, Paul Brenner is dragged out of a forced retirement to solve a thirty-year-old murder in Vietnam in this thriller from the #1 bestselling author of Plum Island.

"Much more than a blood-and-guts thriller... An insightful, moving, and sensitive look at what the war did to a country, its people, and its enemies." —Orlando Sentinel


Former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner has just gotten used to the early retirement forced on him after the disastrous end of his last case when his old commanding officer asks him to return for one final mission: investigate a murder that took place in wartime Vietnam thirty years before. 

Brenner reluctantly accepts out of curiosity and loyalty ... and maybe a touch of boredom. He won't be bored for long. Back in Vietnam, Brenner meets expatriate Susan Weber, a woman as exotic, sensual, and dangerous as the nation of her voluntary exile.

Brenner is plunged into a world of corruption, lethal double cross, and haunted memories as he's suddenly thrust back into a war that neither he nor his country ever really stopped fighting. 

Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille was the author of twenty-four novels, seven of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. His novels include The Maze, The Cuban Affair, Word of Honor, Plum Island, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, and The General’s Daughter, which was made into a major motion picture starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. With his son Alex DeMille, he cowrote The Deserter, Blood Lines, and The Tin Men. Nelson DeMille was a combat-decorated US Army veteran; a member of Mensa, Poets & Writers, and the Authors Guild; and a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. He was also a member of the International Thriller Writers, which honored him as 2015 ThrillerMaster of the Year. He passed away in 2024.

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