*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* An "outstanding" (Publishers Weekly,
starred review) blistering thriller featuring a brilliant and unorthodox
Army investigator, his enigmatic female partner, and their hunt for the
Army's most notorious--and dangerous--deserter from #1 New York Times
bestselling author Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille. When Captain Kyle
Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in
Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international
headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was
captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no
doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence
has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted a year later in
Caracas, Venezuela, by an old Army buddy, top military brass task Scott
Brodie and Maggie Taylor of the Criminal Investigation Division to fly
to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America--preferably alive. Brodie
knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new
partner's inexperience, by their undeniable chemistry, and by Brodie's
suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA. With
ripped-from-the-headlines appeal, an exotic and dangerous locale, and
the hairpin twists and inimitable humor that are signature DeMille, The
Deserter is the first in a timely and thrilling new series from an
unbeatable team of True Masters: the #1 New York Times bestseller
Nelson DeMille and his son, award-winning screenwriter Alex DeMille.
