Word of Honor
Ben Tyson has a skeleton in his closet. His skeleton is about to be exposed. This secret threatens his family, his career and his very existence. A lifetime ago, Lieutenant Tyson led his troops through the dense jungle of Vietnam. Under his command, they committed atrocities on innocent...
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Ben Tyson has a skeleton in his closet. His skeleton is about to be exposed. This secret threatens his family, his career and his very existence. A lifetime ago, Lieutenant Tyson led his troops through the dense jungle of Vietnam. Under his command, they committed atrocities on innocent civilians. Each soldier vowed never to speak of the incident again until now.
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Warner Books
Pages no: 738
Edition language: English
The last Demille book I had read was THE LION. And, I couldn’t wait to get it off my back. It was that bad. So, it was with great reluctance that I picked up the WORD OF HONOR. Reluctance because it was written by Demille, and THE LION was still chasing me. And, secondly the book was blurb-ed as a c...
A businessman's past service in Vietnam is called into question when his platoon is publicly accused of war crimes and he is brought before a military court. I didn't know through most of the book whether the hero was going to remain the upstanding, honorable guy he's portrayed as or turn out to be ...
HOLY CRAP!! I didn't expect this book to make me bawl like a baby, but it did! Nelson DeMille produced his magnum opus his first time out. This story is every bit as relevant today as it was when it was first published. How I wish that were not so. But war will always be with us, and the ethical q...
Finished. Totally excellent.I'm about half way through and I have to say I suspect this may be the best DeMille I have read. I believe that DeMille was an infantry Lt. in Vietnam and it shows. I've read a lot of Vietnam books and I think this one captures the impact on the soldiers and the interna...