The Shooters
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.85 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143142453 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 370 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Don Eastman said I like the yarns spun by W. Forgive me. I like the yarns spun by W.E.B. Griffin, more recently aided by his son. I am re-reading several of the series. The "Charley Castillo" series is a later series, enjoyable to me, with plots that are preposterous, with the books getting weaker and weaker as the series progresses into later books. The best were the Marine series and the Army series and even there the later books were of far less quality than the early books in the series. My biggest gripe with the "By Order of The President" that I call the Charley Castillo series is that the authors can't keep their facts consistent from book to book. There are so many factual contr. R. Hoppe said The end of an era. It's entertaining enough, but the entire series has devolved into farce and parody. It's bad enough that the novels are so formulaic, but reading the Presidential Agent series, after the first two, made me realize that I don't need to ever read anything Griffin writes. I already know what I'll see. The rich dude who doesn't need to be in the (Army, Marine Corps, OSS, Philly PD) but does it because he's a warrior. And, he meets the tragic woman/women, before finally meeting up with and ending up with the most unlikely of all his paramours. And, he has a large number of very senior (Generals, Colonels, Police Department Bigwigs, Politicians) wh. Castillo works to free a DEA agent kidnapped in South America Dan Berger When a DEA agent is kidnapped in South America by forces unknown, Lt. Col. Charlie Castillo and his team are ordered to find out who’s holding him and free him. As usual he has to ford various cross-currents, including Washington bureaucrats who obstruct him and Latin American authorities whose loyalties are uncertain. And he slowly gloms to the fact that the CIA there has been penetrated – but he’s not sure by whom.The Castillo saga evolves, as Castillo acquires the formidable but entertaining dog Max, who accompanies him everywhere. Landing at an Alabama air base Castillo was stationed at years before reopens a chapter of
C.G. . All rights reserved. president, who assigns his personal in-house expert, Lt. Castillo, to rescue agent Timmons. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Col. From Publishers Weekly When DEA Special Agent Byron J. The mayor passes the request on to the U.S. Timmons is kidnapped in Asunción, Paraguay, at the start of bestseller Griffin's rousing fourth presidential agent novel (after The Hunters), Timmons's grandfather asks his friend, the mayor of Chicago, for help. In
W.E.B. Griffin is the author of six bestselling series.
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