Mariner Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><DIV>First published to critical acclaim by Houghton Mifflin?? Tim O??Brien??s celebrated classic In the Lake of the Woods now returns to the house in a gorgeous new Mariner paperback edition. This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century??s legacy of violence and warfare?? both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light?? a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival?? his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness.</div></br></br>Amazon.com Review</br></br>Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or  another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work  on the subject?? <I>If I Die in a Combat Zone</I>?? was an intensely personal memoir of his own tour of duty;" since then have  featured many of the same elements of fear?? boredom?? and moral ambiguity but in a fictional setting. In 1994 O'Brien wrote <I>In the Lake of the  Woods</I>?? a novel that?? while imbued with the troubled spirit of Vietnam?? takes  place entirely after the war and in the United States. The main character??  John Wade?? is a man in crisis: after spending years building a successful political career?? he finds his future derailed during a bid for the U.S. Senate by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The  election lost by a landslide?? John and his wife?? Kathy?? retreat to a small cabin  on the shores of a Minnesota lake--from which Kathy mysteri