Spring Vietnam is over but the repercussions linger The military strives to recover as society reels from the excesses of the sA sinister beauty and a dutiful soldier a Hollywood lawyer running from a dirty past and a cast-off vet who seems to have no future dueling drug gangs along the Mexican border and the mutilated remains of a female lieutenant Stunning promiscuous and brilliant at spotting the weaknesses in others Jessie Lamoureaux may have been killed by a jealous lover a drug smuggleror a ghost from a life she hoped she had left behind Was her murderer the Green Beret she betrayed The captain whose marriage she shattered The senior officer hoping to save her from herself A female sergeant fighting for dignity in a mans world Or a fellow lieutenant with a secret of his ownIn this gritty tale of young men and women torn between the laws of the land and the laws of the heart a dark journey leads from a moonlit beach in Mexico to mayhem in Iranthen back to a country looking for its soulThe Officers Club captures the passions and confusion of the times the reckoning due after a decade of indulgenceand the commitment of those who stayed in uniform through the bad yearsAs the military and society struggle to right themselves their conflicts are embodied in the question Who killed Lieutenant Jessie Lamoureux.
