Griffin?s Honor Bound novels have been hailed as ?terrific? (Newark Star-Ledger) and ?immensely entertaining? (Kirkus Reviews), with ?enough derring-do, romance and action to satisfy Griffin?s legions of fans and bring him new ones? (Rocky Mountain News). The new book is his best yet. August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he?s in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade?s job? To help Frogger escape. Frogger?s parents are in Frade?s custody in Argentina, because of their involvement in a secret German plan to establish safe havens for senior Nazi officials in South America, and the younger Frogger has agreed to help find out what they know. Even more important, however, is the secret within the secret. Before he was captured in Africa, Frogger was part of a conspiracy; its goal: to assassinate Adolf Hitler. If the OSS can use his knowledge and connections to nudge that plot along, even just a little bit? they may be able to end this war right now. But Frade is not the only one who knows about the Froggers. Even as he stands there in Mississippi, a troop of Germans and Argentinians, led by a Colonel Juan Perón, is on its way to kill the parents and, after them, Frade himself. His career in the OSS may have been brief?but it may just be about to be over. Filled with the special flair that Griffin?s fans have come to expect, The Honor of Spies is another rousing adventure from one of our finest storytellers.
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"Good luck is always nice. Every week when I go to the grocery store, which in this case happens to be one of the nearby Meijers, I give a cursory glance to the extremely limited selection of books in the Books & Magazines section. Normally, these consist primarily of trashy romances, spy thrillers, the type of books I think of as "serial-killer/torture porn", various & sundry celebrity-related crap, and "self-help" books. This doesn't usually matter, as most weeks I don't have so much as a penny extra to spend on more books (not to mention the fact that I don't want to end up in the emergency room with one of my wife's boots lodged in my anal orifice because she caught me buying more books; in which, in her view, we are already drowning...). A couple of times a year, however, there will appear on the inevitable clearance table for a few dollars some General's memoir, or a recent work of military history, or a work of fiction by an author whom I respect- W.E.B. Griffin for example. Luckily for me, this week I just happened to have some extra grocery money when I saw this book on the aforementioned clearance table for $6...
I am very happy to note that either A) Mr. Griffin has returned to his usual form after the extremely disappointing previous volume in the 'Honor Bound' series ('Death and Honor'), or B) that William E. Butterworth IV is rapidly approaching the top of what must have been an extremely steep learning curve, and is now writing almost as skillfully as his father does. Mr. Butterworth the elder (i.e. Griffin) has been one of my very favorite writers of fiction for many years, and I believe the 'Honor Bound' series to be among his best work. I am thrilled to find that this book is so much better than the last one, and can barely wait to read the next two in the series..."
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Liam (4 out of 5 stars)