The Officers' Club - Softcover

Peters, Ralph

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Synopsis

Spring, 1981.  Vietnam is over, but the repercussions linger.  The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the 1970s€¦A sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier€¦ a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-off vet who seems to have no future€¦  dueling drug gangs along the Mexican border€¦ and the mutilated remains of a female lieutenant.  Stunning, promiscuous, and brilliant at spotting the weaknesses in others, Jessie Lamoureaux may have been killed by a jealous lover, a drug smuggler€”or a ghost from a life she hoped she had left behind.  Was her murderer the Green Beret she betrayed?  The captain whose marriage she shattered?  The senior officer hoping to save her from herself?  A female sergeant fighting for dignity in a man€™s world?  Or a fellow lieutenant with a secret of his own?In this gritty tale of young men and women torn between the laws of the l

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About the Author

Ralph Peters is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former enlisted man, a controversial strategist and veteran of the intelligence world; a bestselling, prize-winning novelist; a journalist who has covered multiple conflicts and appears frequently in the broadcast media; and a lifelong traveler with experience in over seventy countries on six continents. A widely read columnist, Ralph Peters' journalism has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines and web-zines, including The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Harpers, and Armchair General Magazine. His books include The War After Armageddon, Endless War, and Red Army. Peters grew up in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and studied writing at Pennsylvania State University. He lives and writes in the Washington, D.C. area.

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ISBN 10:  0765326809 ISBN 13:  9780765326805
Publisher: Forge Books, 2011
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