Up Country
| Up Country | |
|---|---|
| Author | Nelson DeMille |
| Country | United States |
| Subject | Vietnam War, cold case murders |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Warner Books |
Publication date | 2001 |
| Media type | Hardcover, paperback, audiobook |
| Pages | 706 (large print edition) |
| ISBN | 0-446-51657-0 |
| OCLC | 400168803 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.54 21 |
| LC Class | PS3554.E472 U6 2002 |
| Preceded by | The General's Daughter |
Up Country is a thriller novel by Nelson DeMille released in 2002.[1][2] Set in contemporary Vietnam, the novel features the return of the character of Paul Brenner, a retired US Army Chief Warrant Officer and an investigator for the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command and the protagonist of DeMille's The General's Daughter (1992).[2] Brenner and his new girlfriend drive north through the former Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone from the old capital of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, with the intention of solving a cold case murder from thirty years previously, in which an American soldier was shot dead by a superior officer.[1] En route, Brenner recounts to her the battles he fought in during the Vietnam War.[2] These recalled conflicts are in fact those the author engaged in during the Tet Offensive as an infantry officer of the army's First Cavalry Division; DeMille has characterized the work as his most personal since his 1978 debut By the Rivers of Babylon.[2]
Paramount Pictures, the motion-picture studio that was responsible for the 1999 film adaptation The General's Daughter, likewise bought the rights to Up Country, with actor John Travolta slated to return as Brenner.[2] Up Country was published by Warner Books.
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hewitson, Michele (January 31, 2002). "Nelson Demille: Up Country". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Delatiner, Barbara (January 27, 2002). "For New Novel, DeMille Visits His Past". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved August 18, 2009.
External links
- Up Country at NelsonDeMille.net
- Transcript of a February 17, 2002 CNN interview with the author