Empire and Honor

Honor Bound, Book 7

By: W. E. B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

October 1945: The Germans and Japanese have surrendered. For Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, it should be time to pack up - but they have far more important things to do.

Chief among them is the protection of their assets, especially the human ones. In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret deal with the head of German intelligence’s Soviet section. In exchange for a treasure trove of intelligence - in particular the identity of the Soviet spies in the U.S. atomic bomb program - his people would be spirited to safety in Argentina. Only a handful of people know about it. If word got out, all hell would break loose, and the U.S. would lose some of its most valuable sources and secrets.

Meanwhile, in Argentina, a U-boat captain pops up out of the blue and surrenders his submarine and crew. And in the American Zone of Occupation in Germany, a young counterintelligence agent pursues an unusual assignment perhaps a little too vigorously. The consequences of both actions will affect not only Frade and company, but everything they’re working on.

Now things are really going to get complicated.

Filled with the special flair that Griffin’s fans have come to expect from him, Empire and Honor is another rousing adventure from one of our finest storytellers.

©2012 W. E. B. Griffin (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Not up to Papa's best.

Too much wordy blathering.
Somewhat disappointing considering what I paid for it
You guys can do better than this bit of pretension!

Too hard to follow

I couldn’t keep up with the movement as I m
Not familiar with Argentina
The accents were confusing but

He's still great!

Where does Empire and Honor rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Griffin's six different series are all great, but Honor Bound is my favorite - perhaps because of the hero's larger-than-life persona and the interesting settings. This is, by my count, his 50th book, and he still tells a story with detail and interest which few authors match. This ranks as one of my favorite all-time audiobooks, even though the ending really caught me hanging by a thread. Hope the next arrives sooner rather than later.

What did you like best about this story?

Griffin still tells the story, fleshing out the characters and filling in the past for those who either haven't read the prior books or, like me, forget some detail. It 's the storytelling and the detail, woven into history, that makes this series - and this book - to my liking.

Have you listened to any of Scott Brick’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Brick is a delightful storyteller. In these books, his dialects enhance the story. Switching from accents of American Texan to Spanish and German enhances the story.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

"The War is over, but the adventure continues"

another great book in the series

introduction of new characters and storyline progression is excellent always fun to look up the facts online as I'm reading the story

Another Terrific Book

As the book drew to a close, I felt saddened that the colorful characters so skillfully fleshed out would disappear from my listening life.
I listened to the entire series.
Hopefully William Butterworth IV can resurrect the series he and his farther so skillfully developed.

This is the Required Title for the book......

Book 7 of the series is a 19+ hour book. You have to be into the Honor Bound series to continue listening to it. There was some goodly amount of repeating vignettes from previous stories, which detracted from this one and unnecessarily elongated it. All the old characters were there, including a few more, which also made following the story difficult. The exciting plot involved former OSS agent Frada and his new best buddy Nazi pilots smuggling "good" Germans into Argentina after WWII, whilst fighting "bad" Germans who haven't made up their minds that the 1000 year Reich is KAPUT! The ending was sudden, anticlimactic and felt like it just set up the next book...but wait! There is no other book. This is the last.

Losing Focus!

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Don't know the book didn't seem to have the same zip as some of the others! I have read the entire Honr series, this is perhaps my least favorite.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

The Characters were well established, but, the story itself was just same ole, same ole!

Did Scott Brick do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Scott Brick always does a good job!

Confusing

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

A boring plot about a country and topic I had no interest in. Perhaps a different cover suggesting the true story would help. I have enjoyed other books by Griffin, but in my opinion this was a blooper. Did every character have to have a moniker 5 names long? I waded painfully through the entire book, because Scott Brick is awesome.

very repetitive and predictable. terrible ending

This story covered the past plots endlessly as well as repeating current story. The ending was as tired as the story.

Same writing stile

This book has about 80% story line from the other books in this series. With 20% new. You can read this book and save a lot of time and money. Since it recaps all the books in this series.