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Honor bound volume 1
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In 1942 First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Marine aviator, and two others are sent to Buenos Aires to sabotage the resupply of German ships and submarines.
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Bestseller Griffin's ponderous third Presidential Agent novel picks up where the previous entry, The Hostage, left off, following U.S. Army Maj. Carlos "Charley" Castillo, a troubleshooter who takes orders directly from the president, as he fumbles about in South America and Europe. Castillo and his crew of specialists are trying to figure out who ordered the murder of American diplomat Jean-Paul Lorimer, who was shot to death in Uruguay while under...
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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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Now, still in Argentina tying up loose ends from his investigation into the UN oil-for-food scandal, Castillo is startled when a young man is marched into his office at gunpoint, caught trying to sneak through the fence. It turns out he's an American officer, a lieutenant assigned to the embassy in Paraguay. A key agent for the DEA has disappeared while trying to interdict drugs and very little is being done about it, for phony diplomatic reasons....
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Corps volume 10
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English
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It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, MacArthur surges across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, only to encounter the Chinese in full force, who drive him back in turn. Back and forth, the bloody tides of war shift, and swept along with them are Captain Ken McCoy and Master Gunner Ernie Zimmerman, caught in the fight of their lives; Brigadier General...
6) The Outlaws
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Presidential Agent novels volume 6
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Charlie Castillo's secret unit has been disbanded-but that doesn't mean he's out of business. As experience has painfully shown him, there are many things the intelligence community can't do, won't do, or doesn't do well, and he has the men and assets to help set things straight. But the first opportunity, when it comes, is shocking: A FedEx package arrives, bearing photos of barrels containing some of the most dangerous biohazard materials on earth,...
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Men at war volume 4
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All over the globe, the OSS works behind the scenes to save prisoners and disrupt the Axis, in a novel of World War II espionage activities
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2017.
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"When Jim Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big one: he's out as Chief, DCI-Europe. His new assignments, however, couldn't be bigger: to protect the U.S. chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials from a rumored Soviet NKGB kidnapping, and to hunt down and dismantle the infamous Odessa, an organization dedicated to helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. It doesn't take long...
10) Blood and honor
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Honor bound volume 2
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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...
11) Behind the lines
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Corps volume 7
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English
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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) Counter-Attack
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Corps volume 3
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English
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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.
14) 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.
15) The hostage
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"Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more is the man to whom the President turns when he needs an investigation done discretely. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now." "An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is told, if she doesn't tell them where her brother is - a brother, as it turns...
16) The last heroes
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Men at war volume 1
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G.P. Putnam's
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1997.
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English
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Pilot Richard Canidy and his half-German friend Eric Fulmar are selected by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to find a rare ore that is necessary to create an atomic bomb during World War II.
17) Under fire
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Corps volume 9
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English
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When Captain Ken McCoy is asked to leave the Corps after his report on probable North Korean hostilities displeases his superiors, he is hired by the CIA and must join with other veterans to retaliate against Korea's invasion of the 38th parallel.
18) 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.
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"Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War. A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa,...
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Men at war volume 3
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English
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A group of Bill Donovan's daring O.S.S. agents matches wits with top Nazi intelligence operatives as they play a vital role in the behind-the-scenes intrigue, strategy, and planning of the Allies during World War II.