The Fighting Agents: A Men at War Novel - Hardcover

Griffin, W.E.B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399146121 ISBN 13: 9780399146121

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2000

Synopsis

All over the globe, the OSS works behind the scenes to save prisoners and disrupt the Axis in this exciting novel of World War II espionage activities. 175,000 first printing.

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Review:

In The Fighting Agents, W.E.B. Griffin retells the story (previously told in Behind the Lines) of Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer who promoted himself to general and led a ragtag guerrilla force against the Japanese after the fall of the Philippines in 1943. This time, however, Griffin focuses his attention on the OSS, which, among other things, was tasked with resupplying Fertig and reinforcing his efforts to undermine the Japanese war machine. In this fourth volume of a bestselling series featuring the American intelligence service during World War II, James Whittaker, a rakish, romantic army air corps captain who happens to be a close family friend of OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan, is assigned to sneak into the Philippines by submarine and bring gold, arms, and war materiel to the renegade general.

Simultaneously, another OSS team tries to carry out a critical mission: getting a German atomic scientist out of Budapest and into allied hands before Hitler's armies can perfect and unleash the weapon that could win the war for the Axis powers. And in Cairo, a quiet, unassuming pilot named Darmstadter is drafted by the OSS for another highly unlikely mission. Griffin spices up his realistically drawn scenes of military operations, weapons, and training with a somewhat improbable love story focusing on Whittaker and a female OSS operative, but one suspects it's merely a ruse to draw in distaff readers. Still, the action ranges from Washington to California, Egypt to London, and all points in between, and Griffin's knowledge of military hearts, minds, and missions has won him a devoted following through five separate series of novels of men (and some women) in battle. --Jane Adams

About the Author:

W.E.B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0399146121
• ISBN 13: 9780399146121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311