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Fiction. Literature. Thriller. Put in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations, General Fleming Pickering is faced with two covert missions in the Gobi Desert. Called to duty is a Marine he doesn't expect...a scapegrace pilot named Malcolm, his son. Together, they will venture incognito—and with luck they may even come out alive...Tags
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A brilliant book. I am continually in awe of how Griffin can take his strong, relatable characters and interweave them with truly historical people such as Roosevelt, Nimitz, MacArthur et al, and provide the WWII theater and events for them to be in. Pickering and McCoy are charged by the president to establish a weather station in the middle of the Gobi Desert. Following this impossible task alongside all the other players (Weston, Pick, Zimmermann, Banning, and all the women they love), and seeing how it all comes together in the middle of the desert was a real joy, at least for this reader.
I really enjoyed this installment...all 26 hours of it. Griffin weaves real characters in with our novel staff and it's almost believable. The range of characters runs from FDR to the Marine on the beach. Some of the idiots get their comuppance, but there are still a few out there doing funny deeds. Sometimes, one wonders about their contribution to the story? Some of the loose ends come together and more are hanging--makes you wonder about the next book.
excellent series that tells the story of fictional Marines during WW2.
Great book
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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 show more 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) show less
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The Corps, Books 2-9 (Call to Arms, Counterattack, Battleground, Line of Fire, Close Combat, Behind the Lines, In Danger's Path, Under Fire) by W.E.B. Griffin
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- In Danger's Path
- Original publication date
- 1998
- People/Characters
- Kenneth R. '[The] Killer' McCoy; Countess Maria Ludmilla Zhivkov; Captain Edward 'Ed' J. Banning, USMC; Lieutenant Chambers D. Lewis III, USMC; Chester W. Nimitz (Admiral, USN); Denny Williamson
- Important places
- Shanghai, China; Pensacola, Florida, USA
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945)
- Dedication
- The Corps is respectfully dedicated to the memory of
Second Lieutenant Drew James Barrett III, USMC
Company K, 3d Battalion, 26th Marines
Born Denver, Colorado, 3 January 1945
Died Quang Nam Province, Republic of ... (show all)Vietnam 27 February 1969
and
Major Alfred Lee Butler, III USMC
Headquarters 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit
Born Washington, D.C. 4 September 1950
Died Beirut, Lebanon, 8 February 1984
and to the memory of Donald L. Schomp
A Marine fighter pilot who became a legendary U.S. Army Master Aviator
RIP 9 April 1989
"SEMPER FI!" - First words
- Countess Maria Ludmilla Zhivkov, formerly of St. Petersburg, was united in holy matrimony to Captain Edward J. Banning, USMC, of Charleston, South Carolina, by the Very Reverend James Fitzhugh Ferneyhough, D.D., canon of the ... (show all)cathedral, in a 10:45 A.M. Anglican ceremony on 12 November 1941.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Perhaps Captain Weston can, so to speak, cast a line into the water and reel one - or more - of them in."
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3557 .R489137 .C68 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Languages
- English, German, Polish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 18
- ASINs
- 8
