![]() DeMille was a Vietnam vet, and he writes about the war with well-considered world-weariness and a Le Carré-esque moral complexity that turns every side into the bad guys, whether during the war or years later. ![]() ![]() It’s actually a quite excellent book-even from my highfalutin standpoint-even though you’d expect to see it advertised on the subway or on a shelf at RiteAid. DeMille’s protagonist, the one-time lieutenant of the company that committed the atrocity, deals with the social and familial fallout of the revelation, and then the legal one-the army reconscripts him and court-martials him for murder, the only charge on which the statute of limitations has not expired. ![]() Photo via Twitter | Island native Nelson DeMille’s 1985 novel, Word of Honor, concerns a My Lai-like massacre during Vietnam that makes headlines a decade after the Fall of Saigon, long hidden by its perpetrators but brought to light by a chapter in a journalist’s new book. ![]()
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