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The deserter, Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille ; read by Scott Brick

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The deserter

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Nelson DeMille & Alex DeMille ; read by Scott Brick

This is a taut, military psychological thriller about two army officers on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon operation. 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 Americapreferably alive. Brodie knows this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his new partners inexperience, by their undeniable chemistry, and by Brodies suspicion that Maggie Taylor is reporting to the CIA

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