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4.3/5 Barnes & Noble Publication date November 16, 1992 ISBN 978-0446364805 Originally published 16 November 1992 Followed by Up Country Genre Fiction | 4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 454 OCLC 54882951 Page count 454 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Grand Central Publishing Adaptations The General's Daughter (1999) Similar Nelson DeMille books, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The General's Daughter is a 1992 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille. The novel introduces protagonist, Paul Brenner who is also featured in DeMille’s novels Up Country and The Panther. The General’s Daughter was made into the 1999 film of the same name, starring John Travolta and Madeleine Stowe. In the movie, Captain Ann Campbell’s first name was changed to Elisabeth.
Plot
Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range. Paul Brenner is a member of the army's elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the army's "golden girl." And how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell's shocking secret life.