Secret Honor (HONOR BOUND Book 3)

As with all Griffin books, this one is well written, is constantly moving between different aspects of the German/Argentine/US conflict and it showcased more of the personal backgrounds of his beloved characters. I personally could have done with a shorter version and just the bare facts. It is very dark, very sad, very frustrating and very graphic. I know about the bad stuff that happens in war and with the author's ability to create visual images in the mind, this was really heartbreaking for me to read. If the reader found chainsaw massacre thrilling, then this is more the style.

I read the entire “Corps” series by the same author and I’ve read 3 books in this “Honor Bound” series. I thoroughly enjoyed the “Corps” series - the verifiable facts provided an educational nature to the books. The “Honor” series has fewer verifiable historical ties perhaps due to the clandestine premise of the books. That said, the “Honor” series seems to be getting bogged down in details and subplots that don’t go anywhere – particularly in the book 3, “Secret Honor”. I read slowly and another problem for me with this series is the large number of characters that are included (I forget which adjutant belongs to which general). The series jumps between Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, and the US with new characters at each location. I can’t comment on this series beyond book 3 because I’ve given up and decided to try another series from Griffin.

For those who didn't know, we lost a giant in the literary arena last year with the passing of W.E.B Griffin. Secret Honor is an appropriate example of the work for which he was noted. For anyone with a hunger for thriller style fiction with a military service and historic slant, you can not go wrong with W.E.B.

Not as good as book 1 of the series but better than book 2. There are twists & turns as this story develops. You can read this series alone as Griffin spends a lot of time setting the stage with background from the previous books in the series. I would though, recommend reading all of them in sequence. The setting is Argentina in WW II. It's a spy story & the series is great as are all Griffin books. These books bring out many aspects of the war behind the war. They are well researched. If you are interested in WW II there are several Griffin series you will enjoy. RAG

The novel itself is engaging and deserves 5 stars. The Kindle edition suffers from what I presume are digitization errors. It seems especially error prone with italic font: 1st is "rsl", officer is "of cer", and so forth. The errors are enough to pull you out of the story and force you to deduce the meaning.

I've only read 30 of W.E.B. Griffin's books but they are all spellbinding and fairly historically accurate. The character development is superb!

In 1943, Nazi submarines formed into "Wolf Packs" and sank hundreds of merchant ships en route to Europe from the USA.Unfortunately, since the submarines were far from home in Germany, they would run out of fuel for their engines, and provisions for their crews. The crews of some of these submarines that were out of fuel were set adrift and starved to death.To solve these problems, the Nazi's would secretly send their own merchant ships to a cove near an island off the coast of Argentina, and load them with fuel and provisions to replenish these submarines. The fuel and provisions would be airlifted to these merchant ships.Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, a close and trusted adviser to Adolf Hitler, under even tighter secrecy, would sometimes send briefcases, packed with money from various countries. This amount eventually totaled $100,000,000 or more. It was to be used by Nazis and their families to continue the life they were used to living in Germany, and spread Nazi idealism shoud it appear the the war was lost and they needed to get away from Germany."Secret Honor" tells the story, in intricate detail, about what happened during these trying times.This story includes, but is not limited to the following:Activities of American spies from the OSS (which became the CIA after the war) to:Find and destroy the merchant ships provisioning the Nazi submarines. One sub was actually torpedoed by an American submarine, and another bombed from the air by a bomber being flown by an OSS pilot.Find and capture any of the secret briefcases of money (and jewels) being secretly flown to Argentina.Find and kill the Nazi murderers who had killed the soon to be president of Argentina (who was the father of an OSS spy).There were also Nazi spies who:Killed the soon to be president and provided support to the new president. who was sympathetic to the Nazi cause and hated Americans.Find out who the OSS spies were and kill them.Prevent the OSS from finding out who was carrying the secret briefcases and, failing that, prevent the OSS from capturing same.This would have have been a very exciting novel to read, and still is for the most part, except for several detrimental factors. There were too many descriptions of mundane activities and events, including the continued use of first and last names and titles (both Nazi and Allied forces) that required much skimming to find content.Fortunately, these detrimental factors will still provide readers with a very good novel to read.

WEB GRIFFIN writes masterful war fiction novels . I am unable to put them down until I finish the book.

The other side's story, great set of characters.

as expectedas expected

NOTHING TO SAY

Up to his usual standard and loved this book. Eagerly awaiting the next installment.