Books with author W. E. B. Griffin

Desperate to find someone to unite the warring interests of General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz, and OSS chief Donovan, FDR puts Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations. Immediately, two urgent missions fall into his lap: to contact and rescue a band of former American servicemen and their dependents on the run from the Japanese in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia; and at the same time, to set up a weather station in the Gobi to help direct planned aerial attacks against Japan. Pickering has a free hand to use whomever he pleases, and he is soon surrounded by many of the Marines on whom he has come to rely during the war: men like Ken McCoy, Ed Banning, Jake Dillon, Ernie Zimmerman, and - much to his surprise- a certain scapegrace pilot named Malcolm Pickering, his son. Together, they will venture in terra very much incognita- and with luck they may even come out alive.

Through six novels, Griffin's bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps has proven itself to be one of the country's most enduring and popular series. Behind the Lines provides his most dramatic novel yet in the story of a courageous group of men who, during World War II in the Pacific, steal into the heart of enemy territory to subdue an arrogant and dangerous guerrilla leader.

The third volume of W. E. B. Griffin's electrifying, bestselling saga of the OSS during World War II. As The Soldier Spies opens, it is November 1942. War is raging in Europe. The invasion of North Africa has begun. In Washington, OSS chief William J. Donovan finds himself fighting a rear-guard battle against an unexpected enemy: the rival intelligence chiefs back home. In Morocco, Second Lieutenant Eric Fulmar waits in the desert for a car containing two top-level defectors--or will it be full of SS men instead? In England, Major Richard Canidy gets the mission of his life: to penetrate into the heart of Germany and bring out the man with the secret of the jet engine, before the Germans grab hold of him first. The only hope? An experimental pilotless flying bomb. Or at least that's what a lieutenant named Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., thinks. Griffin's fans did indeed cheer the rediscovery of his Men at War series, his epic of espionage and battle originally published under the pen name Alex Baldwin and never before available in hardcover. Said Kirkus Reviews, "This is shrewd, sharp, rousing entertainment." Everywhere adventure crackles, fueled by the narrative realism, rich characters, and that special flair for the military heart and mind that have always made Griffin's novels so popular. The Soldier Spies is further proof that "Griffin rates among the best storytellers in any genre" (Phoenix Gazette). "Griffin is a master of the game and a wonderful storyteller. Men at War brims with action and adventure that his legions of fans will savor."-- Charleston Post & Courier

Palace intrigue and the living embodiment of a childhood ghost story await Dihya when she enters the Irrean mountain on her first diplomatic mission. Sixteen years old and the daughter of the ruler of the Red Plains, Dihya has been reluctantly recruited for this delegation of representatives from the three newly united Plains of Tama. Though she had expected a boring, mostly ceremonial visit, Dihya finds herself thrown in the middle of an Irrean religious awakening and political upheaval. A new Flame has arisen to lead Irre, and hand-in-hand with a new Flame comes a new Wolf; the mysterious, animal-like protector of the one who has been Favored by the Irrean god. Now, other things are emerging from the shadows deep inside the mountain – other things which have been relegated to dark stories whispered around hearth fires. The gifts of the Favored will be vitally necessary to keep the darkness at bay.