Full Dress Gray (Hardcover)

William Morrow, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x5x1. <p>From bestselling author Lucian Truscott comes the sequel to his classic <b>Dress Gray</b> - a modern military epic that echoes the scandals that have made headlines for years - and still do today.</p><p>In the <b>New York Times</b> bestseller <b>Dress Gray,</b> Ry Slaight was a rebellious cadet who almost destroyed West Point when he exposed and solved the murder of a gay cadet in 1969. Now, nearly three decades later, Slaights been promoted to Lieutenant General and appointed Superintendent of the Military Academy. Its cause for congratulation - and the occasion for a new blockbuster.</p><p>When a female cadet dies during parade, an autopsy establishes that she had sex with multiple partners the night before. Was she the victim of a gang rape? Was there a cadet orgy? Dont ask. Dont tell.</p><p>And thats just for starters. Slaight has his hands full: adultery among the senior faculty, sexual harassment, and an off-post beating involving cadets and drugs, not to mention the conservative Congressman who wants West Point closed, convinced its a den of iniquity. And when the Commandant of Cadets aligns himself with a faction that believes the military academy should produce stone killers rather than an officer corps with a conscience, Slaight finds himself up against the same problems that bedeviled him as a cadet. But where once he almost brought West Point to its knees, now hes the only man who can put it back on its feet, <b>as Full Dress Gray</b> marches inexorably toward a climactic courtroom battle torn straight from todays headlines.</p>