The Last of Her
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Publisher Description
In this explosive crime thriller from the award-winning author of Rattlesnake Daddy, a disgraced intelligence agent tries to prove her innocence. Or die trying.
Hella Duran was "a good piece of gear," according to her CO. She had a sock full of medals to prove it.
But then it all went terribly wrong.
Now, rejected by the Army, she goes home to Nebraska, only to find that her family and hometown reject her, too. Homeless, she realizes the only way back is to find out what really happened that day in Afghanistan.
But her search for the truth draws a relentless killer to America's heartland, a man who'll stop at nothing to protect his secret. A soul-shattering truth that, if it gets out, will deal a death blow to democracy.
Can she uncover the truth? Or will it be buried with her and her family under a moonlit dune deep in the Nebraska Sandhills?
This is a book for readers who loved Those Who Wish Me Dead, Winter's Bone, and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
The Last of Her is a revision of a book previously published as All Done with Dying.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
After 9/11, Hella Duran, the heroine of this riveting series launch from Spencer (Rattlesnake Daddy), joins the war on terror. Because of her superior combat skills, fluency in Pashto, and skin color (her grandfather was Afghani), she's tapped to work undercover, searching for Osama bin Laden himself. In 2010, while in Torkham, Afghanistan, Hella gets a promising lead, but the drone strike she calls in on what she believed was bin Laden's location instead seriously injures her and kills an innocent family. During her hospital recovery, Hella learns that the army blames her for providing the wrong coordinates for the drone attack, and she's been demoted to private and involuntarily discharged. Hella returns to the remote part of Nebraska where she grew up, resolved to somehow find out how her mission went wrong. Her investigation's threatened by an unknown adversary, who follows her to her home turf, and Hella must use all her survival skills to stay alive and uncover the truth. Spencer makes Hella a fully rounded character and her situation plausible. Readers will hope she'll be back soon. (Self-published)
