Audio bonus! The audio download edition includes a special interview with Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille, and Scott Brick!

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An “excellent” (Publishers Regular, starred review) blistering thriller having a excellent and unorthodox Military investigator, his enigmatic female partner, and their search for the Military’s most notorious—and dangerous—deserter from #1 NY Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille and Alex DeMille.

When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Military’s about The Deserter: A Book elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released simply by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But conditions were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer’s Army commanders leaves without doubt: the educated assassin and keeper of categorized Army intelligence has willfully disappeared.

When Mercer is spotted a calendar year later in Caracas, Venezuela, by a vintage Army buddy, top army brass job Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor from the Criminal Investigation Division to journey to Venezuela and bring Mercer back to America—preferably alive. Brodie does know this is a difficult mission, made more difficult by his fresh partner’s inexperience, by their undeniable chemistry, and by Brodie’s suspicion that Maggie Taylor is normally reporting towards the CIA.

With ripped-from-the-headlines appeal, an exotic and dangerous locale, as well as the hairpin twists and inimitable humor that are signature DeMille, The Deserter is the first inside a timely and thrilling new series from an unbeatable team of True Masters: the #1 NY Moments bestseller Nelson DeMille and his son, award-winning screenwriter Alex DeMille.