Victory and Honor (Honor Bound Series #6)

by W. E. B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV

Overview

W.E. B. Griffin returns to his Honor Bound series set in the shadows of World War II espionage in South America…

May 1945: Just weeks after Hitler’s suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services are fighting several new and deadly battles. The first is political—with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for OSS covert agents and assets. The second is military—with the OSS having smuggled Germans into Argentina for years because of their knowledge of Soviet KGB agents in America’s atomic bomb program. The third concerns what might be the next world war against Red Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions.

To get an early advantage, Frade has been conducting a secret and daring operation against the Communists. But to do it undetected, he and his men must walk a perilously dark line. Because all it takes is one slip—and everyone becomes a casualty of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101543474
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/09/2011
Series:	W.E.B. Griffin's Honor Bound Series , #6
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	400
Sales rank:	75,634
File size:	423 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

W. E. B. Griffin was the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations. He passed away in February 2019.

William E. Butterworth IV has been a writer and editor for major newspapers and magazines for twenty-five years, and has worked closely with his father for several years on the editing of the Griffin books. He lives in Texas.

Hometown:

Coppell, Texas

Date of Birth:

November 10, 1929

Place of Birth:

Newark, New Jersey

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“W.E.B. Griffin is the best chronicler of the U.S. military ever to put pen to paper—and rates among the best storytellers in any genre.”

Editorial Reviews

Diehard fans will best appreciate Griffin's slow-moving sixth Honor Bound novel, which picks up where The Honor of Spies (2009), also co-written with son Butterworth, left off in the spring of 1945. Lt. Col. Cletus Frade of the OSS, besides trying to prevent Nazis from fleeing to Argentina, is concerned with the survival of the soon-to-be-disbanded OSS and increasing tension with the U.S.S.R. The action-starved plot takes nearly 100 pages to get underway, and when it does, the drama is sporadic, choppy, and interrupted by lots of macho camaraderie. An intriguing subplot mentioned early on—a rogue Nazi U-boat that escaped Allied detection and is now chugging toward Japan with atomic secrets on board—goes nowhere. Frade, for his part, is his usual pushy, smart-alecky self and most likely destined to be a higher-up in the OSS's successor, the CIA. Techno-thriller fans will relish the detailed descriptions of weapons and aircraft. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

The poet laureate of the American military.”

“A storyteller in the grand tradition.”

“Techno-thriller fans will relish the detailed descriptions of weapons and aircraft.”

“W.E.B. Griffin is the best chronicler of the U.S. military ever to put pen to paper—and rates among the best storytellers in any genre.”

From the Publisher

This may be the last (and the least) of Griffin's Honor Bound WWII adventures featuring Cletus Frade and his cohorts in the Office of Strategic Services. But don't bet on it. Narrator Scott Brick has read every one of the Frade novels, and his reading is as well done as ever. The trouble is that, unlike the previous books, there's absolutely no action. Not even one shot is fired. Frade, a former Marine who has been drafted into the OSS, is sent to Argentina to conduct multiple clandestine operations against the Nazis. With the war at an end, Hitler dead, and the Allies rounding up as many Nazis as possible, Frade tries to smuggle two German officers who helped him into Argentina. Brick holds the story together, and his sardonic voice and mastery of accents are superb. Still, the listener wonders: Is this the end, or will Frade join the CIA, the OSS's successor, and fight the new enemy of the free world—Stalin? A.L.H. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2012 - AudioFile