W. E. B Griffin
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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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" 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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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. All it will take is one slip to send the whole mission tumbling down like a house of cards...
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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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Honor bound volume 5
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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 a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Corps volume 7
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On the island of Mindanao, a man calling himself "General" Fertig has set himself up as a guerrilla leader to harass the Japanese. Army records show that the only officer named Fertig in the Philippines is a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Corps of Engineers, reported MIA on Luzon, but still, the reports filtering out are interesting, and it's Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy's mission to sneak behind the lines and find out if he's for real.
8) Under fire
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Corps volume 9
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In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy's report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps-and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their...
10) In danger's path
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During World War II, the OSS mounts a mission to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia to set up a weather station for aerial attacks against the Japanese. By the author of Brotherhood of War.
11) 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.
12) Blood and honor
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Honor bound volume 2
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A spy story in Buenos Aires during World War II. It features Cletus Frade, a Spanish-speaking Marine Corps flier on assignment for the OSS. His mission is to prevent a German ship from rearming and resupplying U-boats in the South Atlantic.
13) Retreat, hell!
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In the fall of 1950, Major Ken McCoy, operating undercover, is intent on discovering the position of his enemies before he leads Douglas MacArthur and his troops at Inchon into an ambush.
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Men at war volume 2
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Agents from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, the World War II spy agency, parachute into the Belgian Congo to obtain uranium ore. A race is on between the U.S. and Germany as to who will make the first atom bomb.
15) Honor bound
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Honor bound volume 1
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It is fall 1942. First Lieutenant Cletus Frade, a Spanish-speaking Marine aviator ace fresh from Guadalcanal, is suddenly called to a meeting with a Colonel Graham. Shortly thereafter, so too are Army demolitions expert and parachutist Second Lieutenant Anthony Pelosi, and Army Staff Sergeant and multilingual Counterintelligence Corps special agent David Ettinger, a communications expert who has already escaped from German hands in Europe. The three...
16) Special ops
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In 1964, the American Top Secret Service Operations unit drives Che Guevara out of the Congo, only to have him take his revolution to Bolivia.
17) Close combat
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Corps volume 6
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The members of the Marine Raiders embark on a top secret mission from which they may never return.
18) The new breed
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Brotherhood of war volume 7
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As the Congo erupts in violent rebellion in 1964, old faces and new find themselves in a maelstrom of danger as the United States becomes more and more involved.
19) Line of fire
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While the bloody battle for control of the Solomons rages on, two Marines are trapped at a Coastwatcher station on tiny Buka Island. They are there to report on Japanese air activity, and their position is becoming increasingly perilous, even while their supplies are diminishing rapidly; if they are not rescued soon, they may never make it off the island. On the orders of newly-commissioned Marine Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, a team is assembled:...
20) The majors
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Brotherhood of war volume 3
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An elite delegation of American soldiers are secretly sent to Vietnam to offer the French military assistance.