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Spymasters, The (2012)

by W.E.B. Griffin(Favorite Author)

3.89 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1455850950 (ISBN13: 9781455850952)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Brilliance Audio

series

Men at War

review 1: This is the latest installment in the Men at War series. I have read all of Griffin's books. My very favories are the Brotherhood of War, The Corps and Badge of Honor series. Griffin always incorporates real people and events with fictional characters. In the spymasters - which takes place in the European theater in 1943, there are Bill Donovan, Allan Dulles, FDR, Eisenhower and all of the German bad guys as well as some traitors to the Allies.The OSS is the forerunner to the CIA. There is a covert operation to prevent Von Braun's nerve gas torpedo from being launched.Much of the action takes place in occupied Palermo, Sicily during June 1943 with the assistance of Local women and some of the mob.
review 2: I’ve read enough of the W.E.B. Griffin books t... morehat were actually written by his son, W.E.B. IV, to know better than to expect too much. The Spymasters was not any different. Too much dialogue between characters and no action. It’s not that WEB IV can’t write, he just doesn’t write with the same intensity as his father. To put a point on it, his books are just plain boring when compared to his father’s style with the same characters and plot lines. I’ve been reading W.E.B. Griffin’s Men At War series since Griffin, writing under the name Alex Baldwin, first started in in the mid 80’s. It’s been five years since there was a book in this series. That’s the only reason I bothered with this. I’m not going to tell anyone who is a fan of this series to not bother. That wouldn’t be fair. I will tell anyone who has not read any of the earlier books to go to the beginning and start the series there. Enjoy what Alex Baldwin (W.E.B. Griffin) had in mind when he started this so many years ago.On the plus side, W.E.B. IV is pretty good at research. There were several items of interest to me in all of the fluff that IV puts in the books to expand the page count. less

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