Spencerville (novel)

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Spencerville
Spencerville, Novel Cover.jpg
AuthorNelson DeMille
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherWarner Books
Publication date
October 1, 1994
Pages481
ISBN9780446515054
OCLC30544794
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3554.E472 S67 1994

Spencerville is a 1994 novel by American author, Nelson DeMille.

Plot[]

The novel's hero is the Army Colonel Keith Landry, who served as an infantry platoon leader with the First Cavalry Division and fought in Vietnam. Later on he transferred to the Army Intelligence and served as an intelligence officer and operative for almost 25 years. After the end of the cold war is over Landry retires and moves back to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The town changed over the years but two people are still there: Annie Prentis, his first love, and her possessive husband Cliff Baxter. Landry wants to get Annie back and that means a confrontation with Baxter, once the high school bully, and now Spencerville corrupt police chief.

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