Robert Dugoni
has written a murder mystery based on the Feres Doctrine, which (as written in Wikipedia) effectively
bars service members from collecting damages from the United States Government
for personal injuries experienced in the performance of their duties. It also
bars families of service members from filing wrongful death or loss of consortium actions when a service member is killed or
injured. David Sloane is the protagonist, a can’t-lose attorney in San
Francisco. But, he gave up his practice there to follow his love to her new job
in Seattle, and he picked up with his continued string of courtroom victories
there. Then, the widow of James Ford who was killed in Iraq, came to Sloane for
some help. She wanted to know what had really happened to her husband on the
night he was killed. How could anyone killed in Iraq have died without it being
“incident to service?”
When Sloane
began to dig into the matter, powerful forces both inside and outside the
government put the squeeze on him. They even threatened the lives of his now
wife and stepson.
If you like
military drama, you’ll like this story as people within the government,
military, and private contractors struggle with their knowledge of and motives
about the events in Iraq. This was my second Dugoni book, also about his guy
David Sloane, and we do learn more about Sloane’s very interesting background.
This was a worthwhile read, but Dugoni does not appear to be a threat to the
authors in my power rotation.
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