This New York Timesbestselling novel about a crime and cover-up at West Point offers "a compelling portrait of the military academy" (The New York Times).
Ry Slaight is a young cadet at the United States Military Academy, walking punishment tours in May 1968, when he hears that the body of a plebe has been found floating in Lake Popolopen. Supposedly, it was an accidentbut it's not long before Slaight learns details about the autopsy suggesting a much darker story.
Slaight's personal quest to uncover the truthand the authorities' efforts to keep it from himwill reveal both heroes and villains within the Long Gray Line in this "frightening novel about 'a secret cult headquartered on the Hudson behind a stone façade.' . . . The author mounts an attack on his alma mater with brilliance and fury" (Newsday).