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As did his three immensely popular series Brotherhood of War, The Corps and Badge of Honor, W.E.B. Griffin's novel of World War II espionage Honor Bound became an immediate bestseller: "A superior war story" (Library Journal) "whose twists and turns keep readers guessing until the last page" (Publishers Weekly). Now the characters of Honor Bound are back, in an adventure as exciting as anything Griffin has written.It is April 1943, and Marine aviator...
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The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two...
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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 the middle of a miserably hot and remote Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp. Frade's job? Typical OSS: to help the uncooperative Frogger escape. Frogger's parents are in Frade's custody...
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At Hitler's headquaters, Wolf's Lair, a German general works toward the dictator's assassination. In Buenos Aires, the general's son, code-named Galahad, falls under suspicion by the SS. In the middle of it all is OSS agent Cletus Frade. A crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series.
10) In danger's path
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This tale of the Marines in World War II leads the reader on a journey of high adventure. Fleming Pickering, surrounded by the Marines he has come to rely on, must rescue a band of former American servicemen and their families, on the run from the Japanese in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia.
11) Behind the lines
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Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy heads a mission into the jungles of the island Mindanao in search of a missing colonel, who is reported to be harassing the Japanese inhabitants.
12) Close combat
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On an island in the Pacific during World War II, Major Jack Dillon struggles to succeed as a combat correspondent and Sergeant McCoy is shocked by the brutality of battle
13) Empire and honor
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In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program.
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"Dick Canidy and his colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services face a great task - to convince Hitler and the Axis powers that the invasion of the European continent will take place anywhere but on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. "Wild Bill" Donovan's men have several tactics in mind, but some of the people they must use are not the most reliable - are, in fact, most likely spying for both sides - so the deceptions require layer upon layer...
15) The spymasters
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It is summer 1943. Two of the allies' most important plans are at grave risk--Operation Overlord's invasion of France and the Manhattan Project's race to build the atomic bomb. President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan--and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They must fight the Axis to sabotage Germany's new "aerial torpedo" rockets; to rescue a missing covert OSS team; and to exploit German intelligence...
16) Counter-Attack
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A story of the Marines and their loves and loyalties, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the beaches of Guadalcanal.
17) Battleground
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In this electrifying novel of the U.S. Marine Corps. the master of authentic military action and drama revelas the tory of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic struggle for Guadalcanal.
18) The saboteurs
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Griffin fans have waited years for the return of his stories of the OSS, and now, at last, aided and abetted by his son, William E. Butterworth IV, Griffin has brought back his iconoclastic heroes in a brand-new adventure. The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting and sinking U.S. supply ships. Ships are burning at their moorings in U.S. ports, and a series of explosions has afflicted trains and train stations...