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The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with a story as up-to-date as the headlines. Griffins novels featuring Delta Force officer Charley Castillo and his band of troubleshooters have won wide praise for their realism and action.
Author Notes
W. E. B. Griffin is one of eight pseudonyms used by William E. Butterworth III, who was born in Newark, New Jersey on November 10, 1929. He enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private in 1946 and was assigned to the Army of Occupation in Germany. He left the service in 1947 but was recalled to active duty in 1951 because of the Korean War. After leaving the service for the second time, he remained in Korea as a combat correspondent. He was later appointed chief of the publications division of the Signal Aviation Test and Support Activity at the Army Aviation Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama. He received the Brigadier General Robert L. Dening Memorial Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association in 1991 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award in 1999.
He wrote more than 200 books including the Brotherhood of War series, The Corps series, Badge of Honor series, Honor Bound series, Presidential Agent series, Men at War series, and A Clandestine Operations Novel series. Under his own name, he wrote 12 sequels in the 1970s to Richard Hooker's book M*A*S*H. His other pen names included Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, and Walter E. Blake. He wrote over 20 books with his son William E. Butterworth IV. He received the Alabama Author's Award in 1982 from the Alabama Library Association. He died on February 12, 2019 at the age of 89.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
When DEA Special Agent Byron J. Timmons is kidnapped in Asunci?n, 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 Chicago, for help. The mayor passes the request on to the U.S. president, who assigns his personal in-house expert, Lt. Col. C.G. Castillo, to rescue agent Timmons. Castillo is familiar with the territory, having sorted out various terrorist and drug dealer threats in South America in earlier books in the series. Castillo spends a lot of time in meetings and flying around the globe in the course of setting up the big shoot-out. After the brief, long-awaited climax, everyone pats each other on the back and gets ready for the next adventure, which is sure to pick up the loose threads left untied from the just-completed mission. In less accomplished hands, this would be a recipe for boredom, but Griffin pulls it off, leaving satisfied thriller readers hankering for more. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Library Journal Review
Superagent Charley Castillo is back in this fourth book of Griffin's "Presidential Agent" series (e.g., The Hunters and The Hostage) with another monumental task to accomplish. As chief of the Office of Organizational Analysis (OOA), Charley picks up where he left off in The Hunters, still dealing with the collateral damage caused by the UN food-for-oil scandal. When a DEA agent (with political connections to the highest levels) is kidnapped in Paraguay, the President assigns Charley and his OOA to get Agent Timmons back and dismantle the offending drug organization. Now Charley, against his better judgment and still working without a net, flies among Washington, DC, the American Gulf Coast, Paraguay, Europe, Argentina, and Uruguay in a story that builds slowly but methodically to a big shoot-out. Griffin once again mixes mystery, adventure, and the too often disappointing, to an outsider, internal workings (and politics) of the U.S intelligence and diplomatic communities. Dick Hill offers a flawless reading. While not quite as strong as the other titles in the series, this book is still highly recommended. [Penguin Audio also has a version of The Shooters: 15 CDs. unabridged. 17 hrs. 2008. ISBN 978-0-14-314245-4. $49.95.--Ed.]--Scott R. DiMarco, Mansfield Univ. of Pennsylvania (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.