As just one aspect of the story, the book deals with the integration of women into the armed services, not just as file clerks and secretaries, but equal to men in job assignments. As I was listening, I kept thinking that I wished I had a book club to discuss this one with - there are so many issues, so many aspects of this tale that deserve discussion, that I longed for another reader to share ideas with. The General's Daughter is a far more complex book than just "a murder mystery", as DeMille writes in a long and interesting foreword to this edition. This was one of those books where I kept manufacturing manual tasks so I could keep on listening. And yet there was simply no good place to stop listening - ever. For this one, I knew 'who done it', I even knew why. It's always funny how differently a book comes off when you read it yourself, as compared to having it read to you by someone as excellent as Scott Brick. It's an amazing story, start to finish - gripping and tense, but still funny, especially when DeMille's trademark smart-ass protagonist cuts loose. I didn't see the 1999 film, but picking this one to listen to was one of my best ideas, ever.
Having been disappointed by some of the more recent DeMille books, I decided to listen to this one, in spite of having read it at least twice since it was published in 1992. One of DeMille's best, an American classic
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