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The first disturbing report reaches Presidential Agent Charley Castillo as he sits down for Christmas Day dinner. The caller on the Virginia safe house's secure line confirms that an investigative reporter working for Castillo's European newspapers-and snooping after German and Russian thi...

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Main Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
Other Authors: Hill, Dick. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: New York : Books on Tape, 2008.
Edition: Unabridged.
Series: Presidential Agent ; 5.
Subjects:
United States. > Army. > Delta Force > Fiction.
International relations > Fiction.
Downloadable audio books.
Spy stories > Sound recordings.
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Summary: The first disturbing report reaches Presidential Agent Charley Castillo as he sits down for Christmas Day dinner. The caller on the Virginia safe house's secure line confirms that an investigative reporter working for Castillo's European newspapers-and snooping after German and Russian thieves involved in the Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal-has been brutally murdered in Marburg. Next comes the call from the director of National Intelligence, who asks whether Castillo knows anything about the Kuhls-an Austrian couple serving as Central Intelligence Agency deep-cover assets since World War II -who have just been found dead in a Vienna park, strangled by stainless-steel garrotes. And within hours Castillo learns of two assassination attempts that occurred on Christmas Eve. All narrowly escaped automatic-weapons fire from assailants unknown-unknown except for the fact that the hits were professional. As Castillo shares the news with his group of troubleshooters in the innocuously named Office of Organizational Analysis-a menacing mix of military and former CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and other agents-two conclusions are immediately reached. There's more than one big surprise in all this for Presidential Agent C. G. Castillo . . . if he can stay alive. From the Compact Disc edition.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (16 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 19::2:6:
Format: Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 547610 KB).
ISBN: 9781415957622
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.

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