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Fiction. Thriller. Historical Fiction. Washington D.C., 1942. With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out uranium ore essential to the arms race. But this time, Canidy is not in the saddle; he's the backup pilot. And though he's not used to waiting for something to go wrong, he knows that it will...Tags
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I am so split over these books. The first book in the series was a really boring book but it ended better than it started so i thought it worth giving the next book a go. This book is much better, though there are still too many characters. After 500-600 pages (first book and half of this) though you have a hang of most of them.
*The good*
There is a really good story hiding. I am still not sure how much is "true story" and how much is "inspired by a true story but completely different* but it does not really matter because there is a good story there.
*The bad and ugly*
Sexism, sexism, sexism. All women are fawning over the heroes who are wild bucks doing whatever they want. It gets boring and unrealistic very soon. I prefer the W. E. show more Johns or Tom Clancy approach to female ignorance, just cut them out of the story. If you don't know what you are doing, don't show it to the public.
This might be the last book I read in the series. Or maybe I want to know more of the story. We'll see. show less
*The good*
There is a really good story hiding. I am still not sure how much is "true story" and how much is "inspired by a true story but completely different* but it does not really matter because there is a good story there.
*The bad and ugly*
Sexism, sexism, sexism. All women are fawning over the heroes who are wild bucks doing whatever they want. It gets boring and unrealistic very soon. I prefer the W. E. show more Johns or Tom Clancy approach to female ignorance, just cut them out of the story. If you don't know what you are doing, don't show it to the public.
This might be the last book I read in the series. Or maybe I want to know more of the story. We'll see. show less
Book #2 of the series; OSS "special operations" operations during WWII. Action wise, the book is very slow and most of the action occurs near the end of the listen. Most of the book seems to be introduction of new characters and expansion on our knowledge of those introduced in book #1. Sometimes, it was so obnoxious that the reader forgets what the mission might be. Then, you reach the end and realize just how little happened.
Lots of characters, each of whom knows everyone else for a couple generations. A page turner done in the formal style where everyone's full name and rank are repeated endlessly.
Soap opera-ish but a decent read.
Soap opera-ish but a decent read.
Book two in the series. It is what it is: A book that seems to be moving at a decent clip, but you reach the end and realize just how little happened. Frankly, while I'm enjoying the series, there's very little that happens, but the things that do happen tend to be of importance to the grand scheme of the war.
Sets the stage for a series of books under this topic. Since I had read other books in this series, this helped me a lot in understanding the following books.
As usual, Griffin paints his characters well. Some are plausible, some are somewhat imploausible and some are downright crazy; and yet the story always moves along at a brisk pace.
As usual, Griffin paints his characters well. Some are plausible, some are somewhat imploausible and some are downright crazy; and yet the story always moves along at a brisk pace.
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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- Canonical title
- The Secret Warriors
- Alternate titles
- Covert Operations
- Original publication date
- 1985
- People/Characters
- Dick Canidy; William "Wild Bill" Donovan; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Charles de Gaulle; Brandon Chambers; Chandler H. Bitter (show all 18); Ed Bitter (Lt. Cmdr. E.H. Bitter, USN); Peter Douglass; Barbara Whittaker; Jimmy Whittaker; Ann Chambers; Doug Douglass (Captain Peter Douglass, USA); Helmut von Heurten-Mitnitz; Madame Jeanine Lemoine; Cynthia Chenowith; Lieutenant Colonel Edmund T. Stevens, USA; Gardiner Cowles; Greg Lohmer
- Important places
- Alameda Naval Station, Alameda, California, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; New York, New York, USA; Lakehurst Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA; Warm Springs, Georgia, USA; San Francisco, California, USA (show all 24); Newark Airport, Newark, New Jersey, USA; Deal, New Jersey, USA; Chanute Field, Rantoul, Illinois, USA; Anacostia Naval Air Station, Washington, D.C., USA; Washington, D.C., USA; Godman Army Air Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA; Pope Army Air Corps Field, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA; Le Relais de Pointe-Noire, Casablanca, Morocco; Croydon Airfield, London, England, UK; London, England, UK; Kent, England, UK; Whitby House, Kent, England, UK; Shannon Airfield, Shannon, County Clare, Ireland; Lisbon, Portugal; Arrecife Field, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain; Aeroport de Bissau, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau; Luanda, Angola; Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (historic)
- Dedication
- For Lieutenant Aaron Bank, Infantry, AUS, Detailed OSS (Later, Colonel, Special Forces)
And Lieutenant William E. Colby, Infantry, AUS, Detailed OSS (Later, Ambassador and Director, CIA) - First words
- Although there were four passengers aboard the U.S. Navy PBY-5 from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, most of the plane's cargo weight was mailbags - regular mail from the fleet, official mail from various Army and Navy headquarters... (show all) all over the Pacific, some from even as far away as Australia.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Get a good night's rest," Her Grace said. "Not on this tram."
- Disambiguation notice
- also published as Covert Operations
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