W. E. B Griffin

"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:...

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 who murdered an American diplomat in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Castillo's inquiries lead him to a pair of defecting Russian spies, they offer information about an Iranian-run bioweapons factory hidden in the Congo....

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....

A deadly meth lab explosion in a run-down Philadelphia motel covers a brutal murder. A shooting in a popular tourist location has left two dead. The body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuylkill River. Everybody assumes the crimes are not related, but Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it. That hunch leads him to a connection to the Texas-Mexico border in the person of Jim Byrth of the Texas...

Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political -- the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale -- the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin. To get a jump on the latter, Frade has been conducting a secret operation....

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.

Recently promoted to sergeant and assigned to the homicide department, detective Matt Payne finds more than his share of challenges in three assignments involving a fast-food shooting, a guru murderer, and a police movie star.

"Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to find out what happened, in the process elbowing one another in the sides a little too vigorously." "Fed up, the president of the United States turns to an outside investigator to determine the truth, an Army intelligence...

"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...

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...