The Honor of Spies (HONOR BOUND Book 5)

As with Death and Honor, this book also has a very concise prologue summary of events with a different focus than prior works, up to August of 1943 - when our story begins.This book picks up almost exactly where Death and Honor left off: It begins with the events directly before the assault on the house in Tandil and finds Cletus in the United States, with Howard Hughes & Col. Graham working on "turning" the Frogger's POW son.Again there are two main plot lines and several subplot lines that interconnect but are rather easy to follow even though the reader might occasionally feel a bit overloaded with information. This is due mainly because there are fewer new characters to identify, old friends and enemies are reintroduced and the OSS players at the Peter & Paul homestead play very minor roles in this book. The book jacket only mentions the Froggers, implying it is the primary storyline.My paperback book contains 737 pages of storyline, so take that into consideration with the following: The first chapters do deal with the Froggers, getting the son out of a POW camp, convincing him to assist with his parents etc BUT the second story line comes into play about page 133 when Father Welner informs Cletus that the Frade family has a mountain home -Casa Montagna- complete with a large vineyard that is not only nearly intruder-proof, holds a significant cache of weapons and ammunition set aside by Jorge Frade to be used during Operation Blue and a secure facility for a mentally unstable woman- original to be Aunt Beatrice but now for Frau Frogger. Enter the Convent of Santa Maria del Pilar and Mother Superior. I really like her character. If this ever became a book, Maggie Smith could resurrect her role from Whoopie Goldberg's SISTER ACT to play her. Its a lot of information in 40 pages and by page 178 the reader is back in Germany, being diverted into a different direction toward Rome and the situation there through page 247, with the reintroduction of Von Deitzberg.By page 264 begins the second story-line with a meeting between Graham, Dulles and Canaris's 2nd in command respecting German Intel officers stationed in Russia and SAA. After an introduction, for the next 450-500 pages, plus or minus, the two stories- Deitzberg's and Gehlan's- swap back and and forth and ocassionally intertwine.Pres. Rawson makes a cameo appearance, Evita Duarte has a significant role with Juan D. Peron and we get a glimpse at the newest Frade family member. Last bit of information, don't be anywhere that has breakables as you finish this book because the ending just might tempt one to toss the book in frustration ..

Another Griffin thriller set in Argentina during WWII. A great read. Highly recommended. Griffin is one of those writers that should be called, "Great". There is lots of thrills and suspense between the Nazis and the OSS represented by the Americans. The main character is an American named Frade. Due to the death of his father, he inherits a huge, enormous farm/ranch and is suddenly very wealthy.Some of the book is funny because of the bumbling of the Nazis and lots of missed plans. There are enough women characters tomake things interesting. Now Frade is a super hero who can fly planes and disable submarines.This book is very enjoyable and you can't go wrong purchasing it.No one had heard of Sibrel until 2001. He has no education, is a convicted criminal and drives a CAB!! He lives in Nashville. He wants to trick you into buying a very poor video that he created in 2001 and wants gullible people to buy it for $40.00. As P.T. Barnum once said, "There is a sucker born every minute." If his claims of 10 years are true then why isn't he a multi-millionaire? National Geographic Society made a series of videos debunking all of Sibrel's claims. They are on YouTube. The last word: Please research everything I have written. There are thousands of books written by Apollo veterans. There were over 400,000 people that worked on Apollo. There are now MILLIONS. In the ensuing 40 years don't you think that there are many family members and descendants alive? My book has sold in 12+ countries and is in the Library of the Smithsonian as well as other libraries. I have Honors Degrees in Mathematics and Astronomy. See any VOTES on a review. It is the stupid Sibrel voting "no" on my reviews as if he thinks that it will get him somewhere. What a liar and a con-artist!!Sara Howard, author of "The Biggest Explosions in the Universe" and "Something Funny Happened on the Way to The Moon".

UP TO griffin's usual standard

as expected

NOTHING TO SAY

very good

You will like this book if you like novels with good guys (who wear white hats) and bad guys (who wear black hats). It is part of a long series of military and police novels. While this means that the authors refer to events that happened in a previous book, and that the end of the book doesn't resolve all the characters' issues, it isn't necessary to start reading from the first book to enjoy this one. The writing is in what one might call a comic-book style. Characters are painted with a broad brush in vivid colors, and they never step out of character. The bad guys include a bunch of nazi officers and diplomats who address each other using those long, complicated SS ranks as well as a bunch of Argentine fascists who side with them. The good guys are led by Clint who is about 25 years old, is an ace fighter pilot, owns an airline and about half of the Argentine grassland, has a beautiful Argentine wife,and is bankrolled by a very rich uncle from Texas. He has dual American and Argentine citizenship and is backed by a seemingly limitless supply of former Argentine cavalry soldiers. If he needs something, like three large aircraft, a dozen machine guns, a fast car, a reliable Portugese business partner or whatever - he gets it. The bad guys, on the other hand, fight among themselves and sell each other out. Maybe they actually were like that. The SS troopers who land by submarine seem to be a bit slow. But hey, they were smart enough to get sent to South America and not to the Russian front. Hitler and both Juan and Yva Peron make cameo apperaences. Don't let the fomulaic nature of this book put you off - if you need a light read in difficult conditions (in an airline terminal, for exampe), this book is for you. Il will keep your mind off of the noise and bustle. Besides, you have to give the authors credit for originality - they wrote a WWII novel set in a country where almost nothing happened.