The Saboteurs

W.E.B. Griffin is one of my favorite military history novelists. In this work, his co-author is William Butterworth IV.

Although most of Griffin's best work is behind him, I did enjoy this novel.

Germany has unleashed two two-men teams on America in order to disrupt American life. They blow up railroad terminals and electrical power stations but also can select other targets.

The OSS is still a new agency under Wild Bill Donovan. They are fresh off a success in helping an important scientist escape from German rule.

I enjoyed the cavalier attitude of many of the young OSS officers and their attitude toward old fashioned ideas. Even though, these officers were willing to risk their lives for America. I also found interesting the work OSS did show more with the Mafia in order to gain connections toward actions in Sicily. show less

This book feels like the author ran out of time, and slapped a 5 page ending on an incomplete unedited manuscript. An action/adventure story with no climax. Like many of his recent books, the elements of the Griffin formula are present, but done without the style or skill of his earlier works. Most of Griffin's series books can stand on their own. This one can barely stand as part of the series.

Let me start by saying that upon examining the copyright found in the book, the copyright was entirely attributed to the younger Butterworth, not the same man who wrote the first four novels of this series, I believe in the 1980s.

That said, this book was one of the worst examples of literary coherency I've ever read for any reason except taking a class. The villains are incompetent to the point of almost nonexistent, while the heroes are inept and ineffective at anything but providing a camera from which to show you a bunch of men fighting a world war. And by fighting a world war, I mean sitting around drinking coffee and alcohol while discussing largely random and irrelevant things. At the end, there was almost, kind of, sort of, a show more point, but the author missed. Sorry. show less

I tried. I've been trying to read this book for the longest time but I cannot get into it.

It's written by two authors and when you get to the middle you can tell that the author changed. The writing got more interesting but I had already lost interest.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to give up on reading it ... it sucks.

Adrianne