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Death and honor

The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series by the number-one New York Times -- bestselling master of the military thriller. The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus...

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Main Author: Griffin, W. E. B.
Other Authors: Brick, Scott.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: New York : Books on Tape, 2008.
Edition: Unabridged.
Series: Honor Bound.
Subjects:
Pilots and pilotage > Fiction.
Downloadable audio books.
War stories > Argentina.
Suspense fiction.
Online Access: Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here.
Summary: The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series by the number-one New York Times -- bestselling master of the military thriller. The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine fighter pilot ace recruited as a spy by the Office of Strategic Services. He has strong family ties to Argentina, and in Death and Honor-Griffin's fourth book in the series, his first since 1999-Frade has got a lot on his hands. OSS chief "Wild Bill" Donovan has asked him to set up in Argentina his own official-but-really-OSS airline, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars. Of even more concern are two interwoven, highly secret German operations. The first is a Nazi scheme for German Jews outside the Fatherland to purchase the freedom of their relatives in concentration camps. The second has to do with where all that dirty money is going: a plan called OPERATION PHOENIX, which will establish safe havens in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay for senior Nazi officials who fear they've all but lost the war. Needless to say, the OSS is very interested in both operations-which is to say President Franklin Roosevelt is very interested-and Frade must somehow find out a little more . . . without getting killed, that is. And Frade, whose father's murder was ordered by the Nazis, knows that's damn easier said than done. Filled with the special flair that Griffin's fans have long come to expect from him, Death and Honor is another "immensely entertaining adventure" (Kirkus Reviews) from one of our finest storytellers. From the Compact Disc edition.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (15 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 19::0:3:
Format: Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 536665 KB).
ISBN: 9781415957592
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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