MEN AT WAR

If coincidence had thrown these men together in any normal military organization, and if, improbably, they had become buddies there, any commanding officer with enough sense to find his ass with both hands would have broken up the gang and transferred them as far from each other as possible—as awesome threats to "good military order and discipline."
But they weren't in any normal military organization.
They were in the Office of Strategic Services.

In 1941, with America suddenly at war, President Franklin Roosevelt turns to his law school pal William "Wild Bill" Donovan to create the top-secret OSS—precursor to the CIA—and man it with the best of the best spies, saboteurs, and assassins. Donovan, a WWI Medal of Honor recipient, possesses the rare talent that causes men to eagerly carry out orders they would not accept from anyone else.

"Shrewd, sharp, rousing entertainment." —Kirkus Reviews

"Griffin's plot stays hot and moves at quicksilver speed." —Kirkus Reviews

"Griffin rates among the best storytellers in any genre." —Phoenix Gazette

Book I, The Last Heroes
June 1941. Answerable only to FDR, Wild Bill Donovan handpicks his young and daring members of the OSS, assembling them under a thin camouflage of diplomacy and then dispersing them throughout the world to conduct covert operations. And no operation is more critical than the one run by fighter ace Dick Canidy and his half-German wild-card friend, Eric Fulmar. Their mission: Secure the rare ore that will power a top-secret weapon coveted on both sides of the Atlantic, the atomic bomb...

"Written with a special flair for the military heart and mind." —The Kansas Daily Courier

Book II, The Secret Warriors
Washington, D.C. 1942. The OSS escalates its tactical war. With the help of Charles A. "Lucky" Lindbergh, Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop agents into the Belgian Congo to smuggle out the uranium ore. But this time, Canidy is not in the saddle; he's the backup pilot. And though he's not used to waiting for something to go wrong, he knows that it will...

"A rousing to-the-ends-of-the-earth start for an absorbing narrative." —Kirkus Reviews

Book III, The Soldier Spies
Winter, 1942. Canidy and Fulmar set up and run a spy pipeline. Their mission is so covert that even they aren't aware of its ultimate goal: to extract—or eliminate—those Germans with the expertise to develop the atomic bomb. It's an against-all-odds assignment, riddled with unpleasant tasks. As the OSS's ruthless and calculating top control agent tells Canidy: "There's an especially unpleasant room in hell waiting for people like me and you."

"Suspenseful scenes of subterfuge and derring-do." —Publishers Weekly

Book IV, The Fighting Agents
1943. Dick Canidy, now the OSS's number three man, has become what no spook can be—damn near irreplaceable. Afraid that Eric Fulmar's mission has gone sour, hands-on Canidy goes behind the lines to help. In Washington, a frustrated Donovan knows that if Canidy is taken prisoner it risks losing the race to build the atomic bomb—and the war. Thus, Donovan wrestles with ordering the operation to eliminate his spies before they fall into enemy hands. Meanwhile, the Philippines are demanding the attention of Donovan's OSS. On an island, the remnants of American forces who escaped the Japanese have fled into the mountains. Led by the fiery, unorthodox Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Fertig, this ragtag army of troops and Philippine soldiers must stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army. But their supplies are low, the situation is desperate, and with a cadre of OSS agents as their only contact with the outside world, time is running out...

"W.E.B. Griffin has been called the poet laureate of the American military, and it is certain that his books convey a sure portrait of that culture. His grasp of history and his ability to personalize that big picture through the actions of an ever-changing cast of characters not only informs—it is highly entertaining as well." —Los Angeles Daily News

(Click here to read an excerpt)

Book V, The Saboteurs
In this first novel co-authored by W.E.B. Griffin and his son William E. Butterworth IV, it's February 1943, and plans are secretly underway for the attack on the Axis through what Winston Churchill calls its "soft underbelly" — the invasion of Sicily, and then of Italy. The Allies first need intel and more, and when OSS Director Wild Bill Donovan directs top operative Dick Canidy to set up the resistance and its saboteurs in Sicily, the fight against Fascism finds the OSS working with the unlikeliest of allies — Charlie "Lucky" Luciano and the Mob. Meanwhile, as the race to build the first atom bomb continues, President Roosevelt tells Donovan to quietly and quickly stop what the FBI can't: The German commando-trained agents who were put ashore by U-boat and are terrorizing the U.S. by exploding bombs in railway stations, electrical power stations, and more.

Published in Premium paperback edition by Jove in May 2007. Also available in e-book and Compact Disc audio versions from Putnam, as well as digital downloads from Audible.com, iTunes, and others. Purchase your copy from one of these booksellers.

"...Good entertainment and the fast-paced and exciting novel Griffin's readers have come to expect." — Library Journal

"Griffin's fans will welcome his thirty-seventh novel.... Indelicate language peppers the dialogue, and many close calls threaten lives. From the beginning, readers will surmise that the good guys win, but they will want to read all the way through — just to make sure." — Booklist

“The storytelling flows like traditional Griffin, with masterful manipulation of paragraph length to rein and spur the pace. Few do it better ... I can't tell Griffin & Son apart from Griffin working solo ... This isn't Griffin's first book with his son's help, but it's the first that acknowledges Junior (or rather, IV) as a collaborator ... The obvious future for the Griffin series is for IV to continue them, and based on The Saboteurs I think good things are in store.” — ToxicUniverse.com