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Violence
Some
Forensic examination of war remains and murder victims
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
No significant sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
No significant substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate tension; emotional weight of Vietnam War loss and military bureaucracy
What this book is about
When a man drowns in Quebec and his fingerprints match a soldier killed in Vietnam four decades earlier, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan follows the mystery to Hawaii and the military's Central Identification Laboratory. The thirteenth Brennan novel explores the ongoing effort to identify American service members lost in war.
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Vietnam War loss themes
Forensic detail
Military bureaucracy
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