num_pages: 544
description: When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Armys 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 Mercers 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 Americadead or alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission made more difficult by his new partners inexperience and by his 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.
language: English
title: The Deserter
publisher: Simon & Schuster