By Order of the President (Presidential Agent Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (660 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593359101 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tom S. said I salute you, W.E.B. Griffin!. One of the best and most prolific authors I have had the pleasure to read! I have previously read two 10-book series by W.E.B. Griffin and loved every book. Some common denominators in his books are: His lead character(s) is/are extremely wealthy, serving in the military, on a first-name-basis with the President, multi-talented people who all seem to e. The formula still works! David Hall Mr. Butterworth has writing the military novel equivalent to a bag of Doritos down to a scienceeach one tastes pretty much the same, but I still can't stop devouring 'em! Here you have the rich, multi-lingual, and supremely-talented officer (can you say Craig Lowell or Pick Pickering?), whose best buddy is an also highly-talented black officer, with a . "He we come" according to John. Love this kind of story and W.E.B. Griffin tells a hell of a tale.I like that we have stories about people that run to the danger and expose themselves into harm's way.
Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Delta Force major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, known as Charley, is the son of a German mother and a Tex-Mex father who was killed in the Vietnam War and awarded a Medal of Honor. Traveling undercover, he flies to Africa, and there, helped and hindered by unexpected allies and determined enemies, begins to untangle a story of frightening dimensions - a story that, unless he can do something about it, will end very, very badly indeed, not only for Castillo but for all of America.. Fed up, the president of the United States turns to an outside investigator to determine the truth, an Army intelligence officer serving as special assistant to the secretary of homeland security. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. A West Point graduate, a pilot, and a veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the
Carlos Guillermo Castillo, whose Spanish name belies his fair-haired, blue-eyed appearance (he had a German mother), is working as a special assistant to the secretary of homeland security. Army Maj. government. president to assign Charley Castillo to use the search for the plane as an excuse to launch an investigation into the internal workings of all the government agencies and personnel who need to cooperate in terrorist situations. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. . Vicious infighting between several agencies results in a snafu that leads the U.S. Griffin is more interested in military procedure than in blood, sweat and derring-do, and he resists no urge to meander through scores of pages of backstory to round out the many characters who will be series regulars. From Publishers Weekly Proving himself solidly in cont