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Book Review of The Reckoning

The Reckoning
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The killing fields of Cambodia hold nightmarish secrets of the past-and the present-for Molly Drake, an intrepid photojournalist covering the U.S. military's search for the reamins of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. A flight helmet buried among the Khmer Rouge victims is her first discovery-and far from the most explosive. Led by a mysterious expatriate to the ruins of an ancient city, Molly embarks on a harrowing search for evidence of an entire GI patrol, lost thirty years ago. Now, as a typhoon descends on the remote jungle fortress, Molly discovers that a war she never knew never ended-and it's up to her to solve a forgotten murder among the warriors left behind.