Hazardous duty [LP]
Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea -- to put Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band on the case. But that will be difficult. Ever...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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Waterville, Maine :
Thorndike Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
| Series: | Griffin, W. E. B. Presidential Agent ;
8. |
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| Summary: | Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea -- to put Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band on the case. But that will be difficult. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo's guts, had him forcibly retired from the military, and now Castillo's men are scattered far and wide, many of them in hiding. |
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| Physical Description: | 569 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781410464774 1410464776 |
| Author Notes: | He wrote more than 200 books including the Brotherhood of War series, The Corps series, Badge of Honor series, Honor Bound series, Presidential Agent series, Men at War series, and A Clandestine Operations Novel series. Under his own name, he wrote 12 sequels in the 1970s to Richard Hooker's book M*A*S*H. His other pen names included Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, and Walter E. Blake. He wrote over 20 books with his son William E. Butterworth IV. He received the Alabama Author's Award in 1982 from the Alabama Library Association. He died on February 12, 2019 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) |
