''The General's Daughter'' is a 1992

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mystery novel by the American author

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. 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 a 1999 film of the same name, starring

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and

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. In the movie, Captain Ann Campbell's first name was changed to Elisabeth.

Plot

Captain Ann Campbell is a

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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 United States Army Criminal Investigation Division'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.

References

1992 American novels American novels adapted into films American thriller novels Novels by Nelson DeMille United States Military Academy in fiction {{1990s-thriller-novel-stub ru:Генеральская дочь (фильм) Mystery novels set in New York (state) Novels set in the Hudson Valley