The Enemy of My Enemy

A Clandestine Operations Novel, Book 5

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

Narrado por: Scott Brick

Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War.

A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody - Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police? - has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again.

But there's more to it than that. Evidence has surfaced that in the war's last gasps, Heinrich Himmler had stashed away a fortune to build a secret religion, dedicated both to Himmler and to creating the Fourth Reich. That money is still out there in the hands of Odessa, and that infamous organization seems to have acquired a surprising - and troubling - ally.

Cronley is fast finding out that the phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" can mean a lot of different things, and that it is not always clear which people he can trust and which are out to kill him.

©2018 W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth (P)2018 Penguin Audio

Very good.

Enjoyed the series best one yet! Enjoyed Scott Brick's narration to previous narrations! Very good story!

good story

I enjoyed the book. Disappointed they had a different person reading it but enjoyed it

A Great End to the Series

The final Clandestine Operations novel sees our heroes, led by Jim Cronley, struggling to recapture the Nazi generals who escaped between books 4 and 5 and put the nails in the coffin of the religion the Nazis were creating to inspire the thousand-year Reich. That last is a major theme of the novels. The Nazis were defeated, but they haven't given up their dream of an empire that will last a thousand years and Cronley and his team figure out that they have two separate treasures, each worth hundreds of millions of dollars, with which to fund their millennial ambushes. The first is in the Vatican Bank and they have to figure out how to get the Vatican to seal the Nazis off from it. The second they believe is hidden somewhere in the giant castle complex that was to become the sort of St. Peter's Basilica of the Nazis. It's an exciting story, which is weakened early on by yet another woman throwing herself at Cronley's feet. Then it's further marred when it becomes apparent that that woman's only reason for existing is to give the reader another reason to hate the Nazis that Cronley and company are trying to track down. But removing that storyline from the equation, this is a great end to a really enjoyable series.

Good stuff

Griffin is always a good read and with Scott Brick it’s an excellent listen!! Highly recommend

Excellent

Another excellent audio I have the whole series. I hope their will be more to come

loved it

great book, really enjoy the OSS, CIA books, ww2 era. Poor Jimmy should stop dateing....

Thank God Scott Brick is back

The first three books of this series were marred by the narrator. His voices were at odds with those of previous narrators in the Honor Bound series, his German pronunciation was inconsistent, and his pronunciation of SIGABA drove me crazy.

Strangely, Brick pronounced SIGABA like Sendese in this book, not like he did in Honor Bound. I attribute this to Brick actually listening to previous books in this series, something not many narrators do.

While this series is not as good, in my opinion, as Honor Bound, and at times gets tedious, I find that I appreciated it more on this, my third time through. The characters are not as engaging, Jimmy Cronley is no Cletus Frade. The plots are more convoluted and not as satisfying.

Is this the end??

So as usual W.E.B Griffin tells a great story and continued the Clandestine Operations series as he always does. Great story good accurate (for fictional stories)detail and the characters are your friends before the books over. BUT!!!! The ending???? Could this be the last C.O in the series??? Or could it go on???

Disappointed in character acsents

Scott Brick did not follow thru with characters, german , Polish and British accents as he had done in te previous books. Almost all characters had American accents.

a good yarn

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