In the Lake of the Woods
Why did John lose the election in the novel, In the Lake of the Woods?
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It came out shortly before the election that while he was in Vietnam, he and his company massacred a village of Vietnamese women and children. The massacre had been investigated, but John's part in it had not been known.
In the Lake of the Woods