Word of Honour

Just finished "Word of Honour" by Nelson de Mille, my first one by him. Its a long book 752 pages in all and is about a war crime committed in Vietnam by an American soldier which went unreported for 18 years, but is suddenly brought to life due to a book written on it. The book takes some time getting into and then deals with a whole lot of army court martial procedures. There is an unwritten code of honour amongst the platoon persons to protect each other, but inevitably as it happens, few persons hate each other, due to which the book comes out and then there is a long winded investigation, followed by another one and then the court martial. The soldeir Benjamin Tyson is no saint but it is his honesty in protecting the code of honour that the book dwells on. I would give it a rating of 3/5.