When Paul Brenner gets an email from Colonel Karl Hellman asking to meet him, he has no idea what it is about. But he is certain of one thing: it’s bound to be trouble.
Hellman was Brenner’s commanding officer in the army’s Criminal Investigation Division. But that was before Brenner’s inquiry into the murder of Captain Ann Campbell - the ‘General’s Daughter’ - forced him into early retirement. Which makes Hellman’s request for a meeting at the Wall, Washington’s monument to the Vietnam dead, all the more intriguing.
The Wall contains the names of all the soldiers killed in action during the Vietnam War - with a single exception. One of the soldiers, a young lieutenant, didn’t die in battle: he was shot by his captain. The murder took place in Qiang Tri, the province where Brenner also served his country, and now, thirty years later, Hellman wants Brenner to go back to Vietnam to find the only witness to the crime: a former Vietnamese soldier called Tran Van Vinh.
