The Fort: A Novel
John Renehan
May 2027 · Simon and Schuster
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Former Army officer and Washington insider John Renehan’s new thriller featuring a caustic army investigator with an allergy to authority, who’s out to solve a series of murders on a military base in Alaska.
Lee Nestor was a soldier once, but now he puts them in jail.
After witnessing a war crime in Afghanistan that he couldn’t stop, he left the Army and has spent the last fourteen years as a Criminal Investigation Division detective, making it his life’s work to set things right where he could. He never imagined doing anything else, until a drunk driver took his wife from him, leaving Nestor and fifteen-year-old Allie to pick up the pieces together, and causing Nestor to question whether he can keep doing a dangerous job that might leave Allie alone in the world.
But when nineteen-year-old soldier Felicia Morales disappears from a bar in Juneau, Alaska, and her story blows up in the national media, Nestor is recalled from desk duty and dispatched to Fort Barrent—a.k.a. “The Fort,” a remote backwater in the mountains above Juneau where the Army stashes away those who can’t succeed anywhere else. The military police there have classified the Morales case as a run-of-the-mill desertion, but things have been changing at The Fort with the arrival of a new brigade of infantrymen and their hyperaggressive commander, straining the Army’s relationship with the town and causing Nestor to suspect foul play.
He finds the base transformed from a sleepy backwater to a secretive redoubt where bizarre training methods reign, and after being stonewalled by the commander and his obsequious executive officer, Nestor teams up with Cara Fitzpatrick, a local cop who’s convinced that Morales’s disappearance is tied to Juneau’s festering drug trade. Together they work their way through a rich cast of characters—including the flamboyant local drug lord, a barely employed newspaper reporter who’s obsessed with a series of soldier deaths in town, and Morales’s imperious mother who has commandeered the national media to her purposes—and ultimately discover a serial killer hiding in plain sight in this frozen corner of Alaska.
Lee Nestor was a soldier once, but now he puts them in jail.
After witnessing a war crime in Afghanistan that he couldn’t stop, he left the Army and has spent the last fourteen years as a Criminal Investigation Division detective, making it his life’s work to set things right where he could. He never imagined doing anything else, until a drunk driver took his wife from him, leaving Nestor and fifteen-year-old Allie to pick up the pieces together, and causing Nestor to question whether he can keep doing a dangerous job that might leave Allie alone in the world.
But when nineteen-year-old soldier Felicia Morales disappears from a bar in Juneau, Alaska, and her story blows up in the national media, Nestor is recalled from desk duty and dispatched to Fort Barrent—a.k.a. “The Fort,” a remote backwater in the mountains above Juneau where the Army stashes away those who can’t succeed anywhere else. The military police there have classified the Morales case as a run-of-the-mill desertion, but things have been changing at The Fort with the arrival of a new brigade of infantrymen and their hyperaggressive commander, straining the Army’s relationship with the town and causing Nestor to suspect foul play.
He finds the base transformed from a sleepy backwater to a secretive redoubt where bizarre training methods reign, and after being stonewalled by the commander and his obsequious executive officer, Nestor teams up with Cara Fitzpatrick, a local cop who’s convinced that Morales’s disappearance is tied to Juneau’s festering drug trade. Together they work their way through a rich cast of characters—including the flamboyant local drug lord, a barely employed newspaper reporter who’s obsessed with a series of soldier deaths in town, and Morales’s imperious mother who has commandeered the national media to her purposes—and ultimately discover a serial killer hiding in plain sight in this frozen corner of Alaska.
Former Army officer and Washington insider John Renehan’s new thriller featuring a caustic army investigator with an allergy to authority, who’s out to solve a series of murders on a military base in Alaska.
Lee Nestor was a soldier once, but now he puts them in jail.
After witnessing a war cri...
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About the author
John Renehan served as an officer in the US Army, deploying to Iraq in 2007–08, where he led a platoon in the city of Ramadi during the Surge. He later spent a decade as a senior attorney stationed at the Pentagon, maintaining a top secret clearance. He now lives in California with his wife, children, and golden retriever Ruby. He is the author of The Valley and The Fort.
John Renehan served as an officer in the US Army, deploying to Iraq in 2007–08, where he led a platoon in the city of Ramadi during the Surge. He later spent a decade as a senior attorney stationed at the Pentagon, maintaining a top secret clearance. He now lives in California with his wife, chil...
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