de Mille near to his best. his style is a pleasant one, the plot is ok, although the book might be a little shorter. characters are alive and natural, nothing seems out of place. wish Brenner would be more pleasant...

This is my first book by Nelson DeMille, and it won't be my last. I liked his kind of humor and some of the one liners. They had me laughing out loud. I liked the MCs. They were unfolded little by little to show who they really were and what drove them in life. The two main investigators, Paul and Cynthia, worked well together. Now I will say this came close to the line of too much dialogue. Where they just sit and talk out the crime and assume their assumptions are fact. That has to be my bigge...

Excellent mystery. Kept me up late a few nights. I figured out early on who killed the general's daughter, but DeMille did some skillful misdirecting to make me question my guess for a few hundred pages. Sneaky devil. Some of the characters here are depraved in a way I wouldn't expect from DeMille, but they serve his purpose. He highlights some problems created by having males and females serving side by side in the military. I loved the witty banter between investigators Paul Brenner and Cynthi...

Maybe 3.5 stars . . .I thought it was good . . . but I also thought it drug on a bit longer than it needed to in various places throughout the book. When I look back on it after finishing, I think it kept rehashing plot points in places that didn't need it - probably added 150 unnecessary pages or so.But, as I said, not bad in the long run.

Excellent book! Kept me up almost past midnight while reading every night, I just couldn't put it down! It was a great who-done-it murder mystery, but also very true to life, with what goes on behind closed doors in the Military.Army Captain Ann Campbell, the young daughter of General Joe Campbell, is a West Point Graduate, and a very highly decorated soldier, until her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range at Army Base Fort Hadley. CID (Criminal Investigation Department) Officer a...

I can't recall the first time I read this book but I know I have read it in hardback, paperback and now Kindle. And it is like being wrapped up in a soft warm blanket, okay a creepy blanket.This is a brilliant police procedural set on a military base in America in the early 90s. Warrant Officer Paul Bremmer is already at the base investigating a plot to illegally sell military arms to baddies. He is called to a scene of rape / murder which is terrible and made worse when it is revealed the victi...

The General's Daughter (1999) Trailer - John Travolta Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell’s daughter - Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell - is found brutally “raped” & dead in a Georgia military base field. The first 50 pages have shocking “graphic” violence - but if you can get by those you will be captured.Warrant Officers Paul Brenner (John Travolta in the movie) & Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe) find how unbecoming Elizabeth was to hurt others even as a officer & West Point graduate. As a mystery, the

Nelson DeMille is such a great storyteller!Set on an Army base in Georgia, convincing characters fill the pages to tell the story of THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, her shocking secret life, murder and apparent sexual assault as her body is found naked, bound and staked to the ground. (no spoiler here)Fast-paced and full of sarcastic witty humor, Warrant Officer Paul Brenner and Rape Specialist Cynthia Sunhill's officious investigative techniques to uncover the truth surrounding Captain Ann Campbell's d...

“Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.” ― Nelson DeMille, The General's DaughterThis was a tough read for me. It wasn't a bad book, not at all, but I was a bit squeamish going in, mainly because I had already seen the film and wasn't crazy about it.The book is way better then the movie I will say that much. It is in part a mystery..a military mystery..but the story was pretty brutal in how it played out.Because I had seen the movie, I...

Nelson DeMille's writing is top-notch. It's so tight that I got hooked on the first three pages of "The General's Daughter." He weaves a tale so intricate, that the reader hasn't a clue where it's going or how it will evolve. The protagonist is Paul Brenner, an officer in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division. While undercover thwarting an illegal sale of weapons to Colombian drug cartel types, he is called in to determine how Ann Campbell, the general's talented daughter and an Army captai...

I read this as my introduction to Nelson DeMille years ago. As a veteran, his take on the Army is quite accurate. I like the balance of the mystery and the humor of the protagonist.As a West Point graduate with the second class to have women, I think he explored a subject that few are willing to get into.Where does the quest for power cross personal ethics? How much is an officer willing to give up for rank? With classmates commanding the 18th Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg and McChord-Lewis in WA

I watched the film staring John Travolta a long time ago and enjoyed it and was interested to read the book to see how it compared. Like most comparisons of this sort more times than not I favour the book and again that was my feeling. Well written and perhaps easy for me to get to grips with already having visual images of the characters I found this novel a page turner.Paul Brenner of the Army Criminal Investigation Division is called on to explore the strange murder of Ann Campbell, daughter

The general's daughter is about....the general's daughter! Ann Campbell was found murdered on rifle range 6 in a very graphic fashion. Paul Brenner is the man brought in to solve the murder. He's teamed up with Cynthia Sunhill with whom he's had a previous relationship. Everyone is a suspect. This was my first experience with the author, Nelson DeMille. I really liked this one. It was a good, entertaining story. I kept thinking "oh this guy did it" then I think it was someone else. Everyone was

Done reading THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER. I have zero regrets borrowing this book from my physical therapist. I love every little thing about it. The entire story only lasted for three days but is divided into 37 chapters (yeah, it's that long!). Narrated in first-person perspective mostly in past tenses, the story revolves around the question, "Who killed Ann Campbell - the general's daughter?" Paul Brenner is a highly-competitive detective and would look for answers along with his loyal partner, Cy...

This book had a lot of humor mixed in with a lot of serious sadness. The humor was mostly in the interaction between characters, and didn't really detract too much from the serious parts, in my opinion.I thought the two main characters investigating the crime made a great couple. They did a good job handling a lot of difficult situations, and worked well together.

I have seen the movie so many times, that John Travolta as a rough and sarcastic military investigator Paul Brenner is burned into the back of my head. And I really enjoyed the movie, and will watch it again for the 100th time.The book was great, and way way way better than the movie, even though I had Travolta's face in the back of my mind while reading it. This is one of those books I stayed up reading way too late, lost track of time, and had that addictive quality too it.If I was to become a...

Watched the 1999 movie based on this book.John Travolta plays a military investigator trying to find the killer of a female army captain,whom he had met just the day before.The victim also happens to be the daughter of the commanding general of the army base.An interesting film,even though the story is a bit far-fetched.

Very enjoyable and entertaining book from beginning to end. I am a big fan of Nelson DeMille and looking forward to reading more of his work.

This book was full of surprises for me as nothing was as obvious as it seemed (although I was able to guess who the killer was in the same way as the investigators.) There was a new perspective here on the aftermath of rape and how it destrpys and keeps on destroying that you don't usually find in this genre. Well worth reading.

What more than a place around General's and to don't be somebody like a friend... but to be a the "daughter"... from this look to see what's the feeling to be in type of person and you father to be the general.