Official Privilege

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### From Publishers Weekly
Former naval captain Deutermann presents a detective thriller in which the investigation of a naval officer's murder leads to a high-level cover-up. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
### From Booklist
Deutermann immediately divulges the identity of the killer of two navy lieutenants, brother and sister. But which admiral caused the deeds, and why? Such intricacies within the Puzzle Palace, aka the Pentagon, retired captain Deutermann knows well from his own career. On this fictional sea, his jargon and feeling for ambition and bureaucratic politics at the navy's middle ranks ring true, as his two investigators get stonewalled. Removed from the case by the admiral who asked for them in the first place, Commander Dan Collins and civilian Grace Snow (romance a-budding, naturally) proceed as freelancers. The killer catches wind of their progress via his spy gear and becomes worried that those who employed him may consequently desire his permanent disappearance. So he lashes out at the heroes in a violent scene--which stirs up the admirals' flunkies, belatedly aware they haven't stifled Collins and Snow--and finally in a plot-resolving shootout at the Washington Naval Yard. Deutermann's third mystery, though conventionally constructed, is brought off well. *Gilbert Taylor*