The case against Colonel Sutton

[Jacket copy, first edition (1961)] The story of a handsome career officer trapped in a secret military investigation of his personal life, THE CASE AGAINST COLONEL SUTTON is an intense, absorbing narrative of one man's personal ordeal. The novel opens with the abrupt interception at Paris' Orly Field of Lieutenant Colonel David Sutton and his fiancée, Virginia, daughter of a Pentagon general. Virginia is spirited away by friends whom the General has persuaded to break up the elopement, and Sutton is taken to the military attaché annex of the American Embassy, where, to his surprise and horror, he is informed that for the past two weeks he has been the subject of an off-the-record G-2 (Army Intelligence) deviate investigation. Although Sutton knew nothing of the case, the Department of the Army suspects that he has eloped with a general's daughter as a mock heterosexual gesture – and to coerce the Army into dropping the charges. Its investigation forced into the open, the Pentagon rushes its top civilian investigator, Special Agent Larry Adams, to Paris. Adams is ruthless, cool, capable, the Army's shrewdest "queer chaser," but in Colonel Sutton he confronts a formidable opponent –