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The hunting trip a novel of love and war

"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the W.E.B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking story of love, war, and adventure. As the author of the electrifying W.E.B. Griffin novels of the military, police, spies, and counterspies, William E. Butterworth III has been delighting readers for...

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Main Author: Butterworth, W. E. 1929- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2015]
Subjects:
Intelligence officers > United States > Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the W.E.B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking story of love, war, and adventure. As the author of the electrifying W.E.B. Griffin novels of the military, police, spies, and counterspies, William E. Butterworth III has been delighting readers for decades-but he has a special treat for them now. At the tender age of sixteen, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding school for committing a prank, and on the train home naturally wonders where his life will take him now. It never enters his mind that he will become a world-class marksman and a special agent of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in postwar Germany, play a key role in the defection of a Soviet officer and then court danger as a courier for the CIA, marry an Austrian ballet dancer of ferocious mien, become a renowned bestselling novelist, and meet the love of his life on a hunting trip to Scotland. Yet all of this, and a great deal more, awaits him, in a raucous series of adventures across Europe and the United States that will have readers laughing, cheering, and propulsively turning the pages to discover what happens next. It is a novel that only Bill Butterworth could write-and that his millions of fans will enjoy"--
Physical Description: viii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780399176234
0399176233
9780399183706
0399183701
Author Notes: W. E. B. Griffin is one of eight pseudonyms used by William E. Butterworth III, who was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 10, 1929. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1946 and was assigned to the Army of Occupation in Germany. He left the service in 1947 but was recalled to active duty in 1951 because of the Korean War. After leaving the service for the second time, he remained in Korea as a combat correspondent. He was later appointed chief of the publications division of the Signal Aviation Test and Support Activity at the Army Aviation Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama. He received the Brigadier General Robert L. Dening Memorial Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association in 1991 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award in 1999.

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)

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