W. E. B Griffin
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Men at war volume 3
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English
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Major Richard Caniday of the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy agency, embarks on a mission to smuggle a scientist out of Germany. The scientist is an expert on jet aircraft, which both sides are racing to build.
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Presidential Agent novels volume 7
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English
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There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat-but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant?
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Badge of honor volume 7
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English
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Matt Payne is sent to Harrisburg to gather evidence against a narcotics unit that is suspected of stealing from the very people whom they have arrested. Payne is also working with the FBI in its attempt to locate several terrorists who, in 1968, blew up a scientific laboratory, killing 11 people.
4) Black ops
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Presidential Agent novels volume 5
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English
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In the wake of a series of murders involving covert intelligence informers, Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo wonders about vague similarities between the killings and a recent case involving a pair of CIA traitors.
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Honor bound volume 6
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English
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Wars come to an end. Then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political - the very survival of the OSS. The second is on a much grander scale - the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions. To get a jump on the latter, Frade is conducting a daring and dangerous operation....
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Men at war volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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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. A furious President Roosevelt turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan--and Donovan turns to Dick Canidy and his teams behind enemy lines. They've certainly got their work cut out for them. In the weeks to come, they must fight the Axis in many ways, to try to find and sabotage...
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"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War-and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious:...
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Badge of honor volume 9
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
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Presidential Agent novels volume 8
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English
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"The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea-to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody...
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"From the #1 New York Times- and Wall Street Journal-bestselling author comes the dramatic second adventure in the brand-new Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency-and a new breed of warrior. In Top Secret, W.E.B. Griffin introduced a remarkable new cast of heroes as they found themselves on the front lines of an entirely different kind of war. Now, these men and women are going to find out what...
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Presidential Agent novels volume 1
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English
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Delta Force major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, Army intelligence officer assigned to the office of homeland security is ordered to travel undercover to Africa to investigate the hijacking of a 727 in Angola and the murder of its crew.
12) Deadly assets
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Badge of honor volume 12
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English
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"The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin. In Philadelphia--suffering among the country's highest murder rates--the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings--especially those of twenty-seven-year-old...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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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...
14) Retreat, hell!
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Corps volume 10
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English
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Extraordinary challenges face the Marines in Korea. It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them.
15) Secret honor
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Honor bound volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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A World War II spy novel set in Argentina, featuring Cletus Frade, an OSS agent and heir to an oil fortune in Texas. Argentina is crawling with Nazis--their submarines refuel there--and some Nazis are prepared to spy for America in return for favors.
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Men at war volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2000], ©1987.
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English
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"The Philippines, 1943: As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival."--Publisher's website.
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Corps volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©1992.
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English
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Line of Fire brings to life a desperate mission of World War II that captures the drama and courage of the men who fought it. Two Marines, reporting on Japanese air activity, are trapped on a small Coastwatcher island. A special rescue team is assembled to save them--under enemy gunsight. It is am exciting and powerful story of real heroism that only W.E.B. Griffin could tell...
18) Under fire
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Corps volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2002.
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English
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The new novel in NYT bestselling Griffin's bestselling Corps series takes his marine heroes to Korea. Summary Griffin, author of the bestselling "Brotherhood of War, " takes his Marine heroes to Korea in the biggest Corps novel of them all. Filled with crackling realism, adventure, and rich characters that are his hallmarks, "Under Fire" is further proof, as Tom Clancy says, that "W.E.B. Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition."
19) Special ops
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Brotherhood of war volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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In 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo with 200 men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and S. America. He failed largely in paart to the efforts of Green Berets.
20) The last heroes
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Men at war volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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The World War II adventures of a group of OSS agents, the highlight of which is the abduction of a French engineer from Morocco. The man possesses knowledge vital to the construction of the atom bomb. By the author of Blood and Honor.