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The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series, by the master of the military thriller.As with his other enormously popular series, the first two novels in W. E .B. Griffin’s saga of World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina – Honor Bound and Blood and Honor – became immediate bestsellers and were hailed as “immensely entertaining adventures” (Kirkus Reviews). Now, in Secret Honor, Griffin creates his most rousing novel yet.
In Wolf’s Lair, a show more German general works toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler. In Buenos Aires, the general’s son, code-named Galahad, falls under suspicion by the SS after a Nazi operation suddenly goes bad. In the middle of it all is OSS agent Cletus Frade, who knows the identity of father and son and what they will do next…if they can survive that long. For not only are SS and Abwehr officers hot on their trails in both countries, but the OSS has branded Frade a rogue agent and is determined to shake the truth from him, at whatever cost. If Frade can’t figure a way to hold them all off, then the futures of all three men may be very short indeed….
Written with the special flair that Griffin’s readers expect, filled with high drama and real heroes, Secret Honor is further proof, in Tom Clancy’s words, that “Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition.”. show less
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Interesting plot based on WWII history in Argentina. A man's book with lots of machismo. I gotta keep reading the series to see what happens with the characters...even though this book was 19+ hours and the others are that long, too. In the middle of the book, the German fighter pilot is recalled to Germany and flies their new jet. One wonders about that "aside" in the plot...and others.
Yes, the soap opera continues. Talk about your guilty pleasure. But then what else am I going to do, its not like I'm going to fence here.
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Griffin adroitly shifts among German, American, and Argentinian culture milieux and fills the plot with believable romance, intrigue, and diplomatic fencing, while capturing the horrors of war and crucial role of intelligence agents...What will happen to the SS, Cletus, and the surviving cast promises an equally exciting sequel.
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Griffin's strong eye for detail and rousing ability to keep real earth under his hero's heels give surprising lift.
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Descriptions of the war's battles and its leaders, its aircraft and ships, are notable for their accuracy, which Griffin is known for...the plot moves at a brisk pace.
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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
- Secret Honor
- Original publication date
- 2000-01 (G.P.Putnam's Sons) (G.P.Putnam's Sons)
- People/Characters
- Cletus Howell Frade
- Important places
- Buenos Aires, Argentina; Germany; Europe
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945)
- Dedication
- I would like to thank Mr. William W. Duffy II, formerly of the United States Embassy in Buenos Aires, and Colonel Jose Manuel Menendez, Calvary, Argentine Army, Retired, who both went well beyond the call of duty in helping m... (show all)e in many ways as I was writing this book.
- First words
- During the spring of 1943, 240 German submarines were operating in the North and South Atlantic Ocean. Their mission was the interdiction of Allied shipping carrying war supplies from the United States to England and North Af... (show all)rica, and of Allied shipping carrying wool, beef, and other foodstuffs from (primarily) Argentina to England.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He turned back to his papers and started to read.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PS3557 .R489137 .S37 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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