W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $25.95 (340p) ISBN 978-0-399-14494-3
The third installment and first hardcover printing of Griffin's series of WWII espionage novels (originally published under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin) once again conjures up the year 1942, an era when men were boys and women were, well... large...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $25.95 (497p) ISBN 978-0-399-14568-1
This third entry in the military/espionage Honor Bound series, focusing on the Argentine-German connection during WWII, will intrigue newcomers and have Griffin's long-time fans queuing up for the next installment. In 1943, the Nazi-ordered...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $25.95 (665p) ISBN 978-0-399-14646-6
Newly initiated readers of Griffin (The Fighting Agents) will find the latest in the Brotherhood of War series strongly reminiscent of modern American military classics From Here to Eternity and The Winds of War. Longtime Griffin faithful, eager...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-14926-9
If God is truly in the details, then Griffin must be the pope of police procedurals. Want to know what paragraph of the Pennsylvania Criminal Code you violate if you use a flashing blue light attached to your car to get through traffic? Or what the...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Jove Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-10397-7
The ``victim'' of the title is a drug dealer named Tony DeZego, but this book's real victim is the reader, who is dragged through a flimsy plot that's overwhelmed by tedious, irrelevant details about the Philadelphia police department's uniforms,...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Jove Books $7.99 (503p) ISBN 978-0-515-10417-2
``Volume III of The Corps series covers the period from Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal in an unorthodox fashion,'' reported PW. ``Instead of offering the usual tales of Marine heroism and sacrifice, Griffin explores the difficult adjustment of enlisted
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Jove Books $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-515-11113-2
In this fifth installment of Griffin's Badge of Honor series, members of Philadelphia's law enforcement community are again faced with the difficult task of protecting their city. Teamed in an uneasy alliance with the Secret Service, Philly's cops...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam Adult $16.95 (8p) ISBN 978-0-399-13305-3
Griffin already has a high profile in Berkley paperback; his six-volume Brotherhood of War saga, a Green Beret epic spanning WW II to Richard Nixon's presidency, has more than three million copies in print. With The New Breed, the series segues into
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam Adult $18.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-399-13380-0
This seventh novel in the bestselling Brotherhood of War series is relatively short on action but rich in those insightsfor which Griffin has won acclaiminto the souls or minds of military men and their wives. It is 1963, and the deteriorating...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam Publishing Group $16.95 (7p) ISBN 978-0-399-13493-7
Griffin's previous books have established him as a novelist of military manners. In his work, combat is only part of the environment in which armed forces function; war becomes a peg on which to hang series of vignettes showing the author's mastery...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam Adult $23.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-399-13976-5
One challenge of series writing is to make each individual novel stand on its own, and Griffin almost succeeds with this fast-paced slice-of-cop-life entry in his Badge of Honor series, the sixth volume overall (after The Assassin) and the first to...
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV, read by Scott Brick. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-030-9
In this latest installment in Griffin and Butterworth’s Honor Bound series, WWII is winding down and Maj. Cletus Frade—a citizen of both the United States and Argentina with strong ties to military, political, and business elites in both nations—must
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15780-6
The leisurely seventh presidential agent thriller starring Lt. Col. Charley Castillo from Griffin and Butterworth (after 2010’s The Outlaws) opens with a bang. Mexican federales stop two U.S. Special Forces officers and two DEA agents at a roadblock
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (453p) ISBN 978-0-399-15517-8
In bestseller Griffin’s gung-ho fifth presidential agent novel (after The Shooters
), the U.S. president assigns Lt. Col. Charley Castillo, a member of the Office of Organizational Analysis, a special task—to track down the terrorists...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (465p) ISBN 978-0-399-15314-3
Is Griffin our Homer or Tacitus? Those military experts wrote about real soldiers—and what the world needs now is a real-life Charley Castillo, Griffin's smart and efficient Department of Homeland Security agent, who works directly for the
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-399-15207-8
Proving himself solidly in control of cutting-edge military material, Griffin bases his new series not on wars past but on today's murky exigencies of terrorism and international political intrigue. Army Maj. Carlos Guillermo Castillo, whose...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-399-15379-2
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,...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15440-9
When DEA Special Agent Byron J. Timmons is kidnapped in Asunción, Paraguay, at the start of bestseller Griffin’s rousing fourth presidential agent novel (after The Hunters
), Timmons’s grandfather asks his friend, the mayor of...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-15081-4
Megaseller Griffin (Honor Bound
; Brotherhood of War
; Men at War
) musters another solid entry in his series chronicling the history of the U.S. Marines, now engaged in the Korean War. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, nicknamed El Supremo by his...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author . Putnam $26.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-399-14788-3
After eight books in the popular WWII Corps series, Griffin's latest kicks off on the Korean peninsula, where forces from the Communist North have just stormed over the 38th Parallel. Within a few weeks, the old team is back together, most under
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $24.95 (549p) ISBN 978-0-399-14421-9
The gung-ho Marines familiar to readers of Griffin's seven Corps novels (Behind the Lines, etc.) return for an eighth adventure--and not their best. Young Marine officers and enlisted men with high morale and low morals such as Ed Banning, Ken McCoy
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $19.95 (414p) ISBN 978-0-399-13550-7
This latest volume in the Corps series takes the U.S. Marines from Midway to Guadalcanal. Navy Cpt. Fleming Pickering travels to various headquarters, reporting events to the secretary of the Navy; recently promoted Cpt. Charley Galloway forms a new
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $263.4 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-19129-9
The fifth volume (after Battleground ) of Griffin's narrative of the U.S. Marines in WW II is significantly mis-titled. Although the story goes about halfway through the battle of Guadalcanal, none of the characters is ever seen in the line of fire.
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $22.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-399-13766-2
Set in 1942, the sixth book (following Line of Fire ) in Griffin's series about The Corps revolves around a war bond tour featuring Marine heroes of the Guadalcanal campaign. Series fans will recognize the central characters, among them Marine...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $22.95 (474p) ISBN 978-0-399-13862-1
Best known for his series Brotherhood of War and The Corps, Griffin's new WW II novel uses the relatively unexplored theater of South America as the backdrop for his fast-paced story of a father and son, conflicting loyalties and war. In late 1942,...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14086-0
Griffin's seventh novel in The Corps series (after Close Combat) continues the author's breezy look at the Marine Corps during WWII. Here, he uses guerrilla action behind the lines in the Philippines as foreground to tell the behind-the-lines tale...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-14190-4
Set in the spy-infested capital of Argentina in 1943, Griffin's newest is a sequel to Honor Bound (1994) and adheres to the author's usual recipe of good guys, bad women and broad but sometimes transparent suspense and melodrama. Clete Frade is a...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author Putnam $24.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-399-14308-3
The seventh in Griffin's cop-oriented Badge of Honor series (after The Murderers), this fast-paced, clever thriller puts wealthy, wisecracking Philadelphia detective Matt Payne in hot water up to his neck. As assistant to the head of the Special...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $42.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59737-119-3
Prolific Griffin brings back Delta Force Maj. Charley Castillo (last seen in 2004's By Order of the President
) for a second outing in this fast-paced adventure. What begins with the kidnapping of an American diplomat's wife in Argentina...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, John Kevin Dugan, Author Jove Books $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-10148-5
This police procedural, the second in the Badge of Honor series, ostensibly concerns efforts to nab a serial rapist at large in Philadelphia, but the real subjects here are the interior lives of police officers and the department politics that...
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Putnam, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15751-6
Bestseller Griffin’s solid seventh Men at War novel (after 2007’s The Double Agents), the third in collaboration with son Butterworth, finds top OSS agent Maj. Richard Caniday involved in both a mission to keep Ike’s imminent plan to invade Sicily a
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Putnam, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-16257-2
Members of the Philadelphia PD tangle with ruthless drug and human sex traffickers in bestseller Griffin’s explosive 11th Badge of Honor novel, this one, like 2010’s The Vigilantes, coauthored with son Butterworth. Homicide sergeant Matt Payne,...
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15755-4
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...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, William E. Butterworth, IV, Author . Putnam $25.95 (305p) ISBN 978-0-399-15348-8
Bestseller Griffin and his son, Butterworth, resuscitate Griffin's Men at War series, first published in paperback during the 1980s under the pseudonym Alex Baldwin and featuring the Office of Strategic Services; its fabled chief, Col. William J.
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, William E. Butterworth, IV, Author . Putnam $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15420-1
Actors David Niven and Peter Ustinov, along with James Bond creator Ian Fleming, all of whom actually served Britain in WWII, help the heroes of Griffin’s Men at War series deceive the Germans in this solid sixth installment (after 2006’s
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV, Putnam, $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15683-0
In Griffin and Butterworth's long and exceedingly detailed sixth presidential agent thriller (after Black Ops), the U.S. president has ordered Lt. Col. Carlos "Charley" Castillo to disband his secret organization, the Office of Organizational...
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W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV, Putnam, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15663-2
Griffin's plodding 10th police thriller in his Badge of Honor series (after The Traffickers), co-authored with son Butterworth, adds little that's either new or exciting to a shopworn plot. Despite debilitating chemotherapy for prostate cancer, Will
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, William E. Butterworth, IV, Author . Putnam $26.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-399-15498-0
The solid fourth Honor Bound thriller from bestseller Griffin and son Butterworth picks up where 2000's Secret Honor
left off, with OSS agent Cletus Frade still tangling with high-level Nazis in supposedly neutral Argentina in 1943. Fans of...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, William E. Butterworth, IV, Author . Putnam $26.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-399-15586-4
Dope smuggling, prostitution and murder preoccupy Sgt. Matt Payne of the Philadelphia PD in the uneven ninth Badge of Honor novel from bestseller Griffin and son Butterworth (after Final Justice
). Payne, known as the Wyatt Earp of the Main Line...
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W. E. B. Griffin, Author, William E. Butterworth, IV, Author . Putnam $26.95 (481p) ISBN 978-0-399-15566-6
Set in 1943, the tedious fifth entry in bestseller Griffin’s sprawling Honor Bound series, coauthored with son Butterworth, picks up where Death and Honor
(2008) left off, with Don Cletus Frade, a U.S. Marine Corps major, still trying to...
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