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Victory and Honor

By: W. E. B. Griffin
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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The spectacular new book in New York Times best-selling author W.E.B. Griffin's Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage.

Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political - the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its covert agents and assets. The second is on a much grander scale: the possible next world war, against Joe Stalin and his voracious ambitions.

To get a jump on the latter, Frade has been conducting a secret operation, one of great daring - and great danger - but to conduct it and not be discovered, he and his men must walk a perilously dark line. One slip, and everyone becomes a casualty of war.

©2011 W.E.B. Griffin (P)2011 Penguin Audio

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Classic W.E.B. and Brick's narration wins big.

This is a wonderfully entertaining addition to the extremely enjoyable OSS series. The author(s) rank at the top of the military-historical fiction genre and this story continues the well-deserved legacy. Scott Brick is one of my favorite narrators possessing a polished ease of delivery that makes any story he reads come to life. This is, as I had hoped for and expected, another carefully researched and detailed narrative. The characters are tightly and skillfully interlaced with the actual historical timeline. I was extremely pleased with the story, the excellent quality of the audio production and Mr. Brick's exceptional skills as a narrator. Highly recommended and a must-read for W.E.B. fans.

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Victory and Honor

Scott Brick does a great job narrating this series. This was a good book, the pace moved right along and their was some action but much less than other books in the series. This book had much more suspense involved in the storyline. This is one of the few Griffin books that brought a tear to my eye toward the end of the book. I had just read a book about Harry Truman creating the CIA so when it showed up in the story line I felt very knowledgeable. Can not wait for the next book in the series. You will not waste a book credit if you choose this book.

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No mas Argentina!

While I like the author’s Argentina “Honor” series very much overall, the story lines have gotten pretty thin and it’s probably time to put the old girl to rest. Victory and Honor is #6 in the series about O.S.S. operations in WWII South America. While the war ended sometime in #5, for some reason, the story continues into this volume….. and the next – I see #7, Empire and Honor just got published. This all seems to be about the author providing a writing career for his son, listed as a co-author on all Griffin series for the last few years. Even the WWII USMC series continues on into the Korean War. When will it all end? Who knows? Who cares? Suffice it to say, I’m already pot-committed, I.e. I’m all in, as are thousands of other Griffin fans. We keep buying the books because it’s very much like reading letters about family and old friends – you want to know what happens to them, however mundane and trivial. He brilliantly tosses in a few morsels of new info amid the pages and pages of chronicling daily life. For example, I became very happy when Griffin finally had the Navy dock Cletus Frade’s pay for the chronograph watch he never turned in after returning from Guadalcanal three years earlier in the story. And an even bigger nugget, he referenced the only crossover character in all of Griffin’s books, I.e. Lt. Colonel Clyde W. Dawkins – WOW! That’ll make the Griffin geeks keep coming back for more. I would never suggest anyone read a Griffin book as a stand-alone – it’s really about the journey and understanding the Griffin formula. On to Empire and Honor to find out what Cletus Frade is having for breakfast…..

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Outstanding Read

First book I have listened to of the honor bound series. Will not be the last. Well performed, well written and exciting historical fiction. Enjoyed the characters, the plot and writing. Did not want it to end.

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Victory and Honor

I am so disappointed. I expected more of the wonderful saga, but Victory and Honor fell short.

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Good but a little short

How did the narrator detract from the book?

Scott Brick does not do well with non English books, he strugles with foreign words and accents.

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victory and honor

very good book just like all the rest i have listened to i wish they would get more of the corp series

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Writing quality.

Narrator. A. And. A. A. Be. See. Sure At. Sat. Bat. Rat. Cat. Bee. Pollen.

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Faster Moving than Most Griffin Novels

In this shortest volume of the Honor Bound series, W.E.B. Griffin brings his story to the end of World War II and begins a transition into the postwar world for his intelligence officers. The OSS is about to be disbanded, its operatives and assets divided among the FBI and the military intelligence units. This causes difficulties for the heroes of the series because they have been involved in an operation that they never reported to William Donovan, head of the OSS, because they believed he would feel honor bound to report on their actions to FDR and then a priceless intelligence opportunity would be lost. The opportunity is to find out about Soviet spies throughout the U.S. including in the Manhattan Project—a circumstance which many of FDR’s top people naively believe couldn’t happen because the Soviets were allies. The price of this information is to smuggle into Argentina many German families and in a few cases, Nazi officials. It’s this latter part of the deal that is causing the difficulties now as the Secretary of State has his own intelligence suggesting that Nazis have gotten into Argentina (many did outside of this very limited program) and he is trying to get those responsible for getting them there.

I have mixed feelings about this book. I understand the deal that was made and why it was necessary, but I also was totally uncomfortable with our heroes working to help Nazis and justifying it. It’s ugly and it weakens my support for the heroes. The truth is, I wouldn’t have minded them being exposed and suffering the consequences for their actions. However well intentioned they were, they knew they were not acting with the support of their superiors and in fact, thought their superiors might shut them down.

That being said, it’s an exciting novel and moved faster than is often the case in a W.E.B. Griffin book.

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Great story

The stories would’ve been better if Dick hill had continued their rating, but it’s hard to go wrong with WEB, Griffin!

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