Dress Gray

This New York Times –bestselling 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 accident—but it's not long before Slaight learns details about the autopsy suggesting a much darker story. Slaight's personal quest to uncover the truth—and the authorities' efforts to keep it from him—will 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 ). A classic New York Times bestseller: Ry Slaight was walking punishment tours on Central Area when he heard the news.?They found a body floating up in Lake Popolopen this morning,? a voice said.?Drowned,? the cadet spoke from the corner of his mouth, eyes straight to the front. ?Been dead a couple of days. Grim scene, they say.?This is a novel about the soft underbelly of the Long Gray Line{u2014}West Point{u2019}s men and boys{u2014}and what happens in the delicate process when knowledge of power is passed between them. Never before has the academy and its secret strength, power in the absence of money, been portrayed in such human terms. In Dress Gray, West Point lives up to its image{u2014}as a way of life, not a college A classic New York Times bestseller: Ry Slaight was walking punishment tours on Central Area when he heard the news. They found a body floating up in Lake Popolopen this morning, a voice said. Drowned, the cadet spoke from the corner of his mouth, eyes straight to the front. Been dead a couple of days. Grim scene, they say. This is a novel about the soft underbelly of the Long Gray Line--West Point's men and boys--and what happens in the delicate process when knowledge of power is passed between them. Never before has the academy and its secret strength, power in the absence of money, been portrayed in such human terms. In Dress Gray, West Point lives up to its image--as a way of life, not a college