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).