The Enemy of My Enemy (Clandestine Operations #5)

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Special agent James Cronley Jr finds that fighting both ex Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake He s been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end Somebody Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again But there s to it than that Evidence has surfaced that in the war s last gasps, Heinrich Himmler had stashed away a fortune to build a secret religion, dedicated both to Himmler and to creating the Fourth Reich That money is still out there in the hands of Odessa, and that infamous organization seems to have acquired a surprising and troubling ally Cronley is fast finding out that the phrase the enemy of my enemy is my friend can mean a lot of different things, and that it is not always clear which people he can trust and which are out to kill him. Free Read The Enemy of My Enemy (Clandestine Operations #5) By W.E.B. Griffin For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I m typically a fan of Griffin genre and this series with this exception Easily the worst story I ve come across I hope this clinker is the only exception and not the new rule 1 of 10 starsIn book 5 of the Clandestine Operations series we getof the same formula that the rest of the series has given us This isn t always a good thing when it occurs that the book keeps trying to tell us the story in exposition rather than by showing us with action I have had similar complaints on earlier works in the series and they are still present I will say there are actually a few decent action sequences and I there were only 4 or so long repeated sections of the same informationIn book 5 of the Clandestine Operations series we getof the same formula that the rest of the series has given us This isn t always a good thing when it occurs that the book keeps trying to tell us the story in exposition rather than by showing us with action I have had similar complaints on earlier works in the series and they are still present I will say there are actually a few decent action sequences and I there were only 4 or so lon...SUBJECT READER REVIEW WITH PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOWS The Enemy of My Enemy would seem to conclude Griffin s Clandestine Operations series, as the book ends with the hanging of the convicted criminals following the Nuremburg Trials Now I ll admit there was a fair amount of intrigue that preceded the execution of the sentences, as well as some gruesome discoveries As introduced in earlier series instalments, Heinrich Himmler envisioned the spiritual masthead for the Schutzstaffel, the SS, or mo SUBJECT READER REVIEW WITH PLOT SPOILERS FOLLOWS The Enemy of My Enemy would seem to conclude Griffin s Clandestine Operations series, as the book ends with the hanging of the convicted criminals following the Nuremburg Trials Now I ll admit there was a fair amount of intrigue that preceded the execution of the sentences, as well as some gruesome discoveries As introduced in earlier series instalments, Heinrich Himmler envisioned the spiritual masthead for the Schutzstaffel, the SS, orpointedly, the Waffen SS, the armed division of the terror troops The Church of Saint Heinrich, fully endorsed by Hitler as fitting for Germandon , was built in a remote castle in Paderborn, Westphalia called Wewelsburg Interestingly, it was built by slave labor assigned to Niederhagen Konzentrationslager, the smallest of the concentration camps In perhaps the most convulsive of discoveries in The Enemy of My Enemy is the s...I have to give this book 5 Stars because of the author s clever way of giving the reader a history lesson interwoven into fiction This is the story of how the Nazis were trying to escape Germany after the e...WEB Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition I have read envy single one of his books, and I can tell you this one did not disappoint The backdrop are the Nuremberg Trails following the defeat of the Nazis in WWII It s a fascinating tale of youn...Without a doubt the best Griffen bookI have read every series, most books 5 times each orI read each of the series once a year.Off all these books, about Marines, the Army, the police, the intelligence community then and now this is the best book without comparTHE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY is book five in the Clandestine Operations series, which W E B Griffin writes with his son, William E Butterworth IV Their latest thriller begins in the early stages of the Allied Russian occupation following the armistice to end World War II Justice Robert H Jackson is appointed by President Harry S Truman to oversee and conduct courtroom trials of former German SS officers A cadre of Russian and American military officers is ordered to track down any SS men who a THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY is book five in the Clandestine Operations series, which W E B Griffin writes with his son, William E Butterworth IV Their latest thriller begins in the ea...THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY is book five in the Clandestine Operations series, which W E B Griffin writes with his son, William E Butterworth IV Their latest thriller begins in the early stages of the Allied Russian occupation following the armistice to end World War II Justice Robert H Jackson is appointed by President Harry S Truman to oversee and conduct courtroom trials of former German SS officers A cadre of Russian and American military officers is ordered to track down any SS men who a THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY is book five in the Clandestine Operations series, which W E B Griffin writes with his son, William E Butterworth IV Their latest thriller begins in the early stages of the Allied Russian occupation following the armistice to end World War II Justice Robert H Jackson is appointed by President Harry S Truman to oversee and conduct courtroom trials of former German SS officers A cadre of Russian and American military officers is ordered to track down any SS men who are still on the loose for prosecution in Nuremburg.Truman meets with Jackson and Captain Souers, USNR, to discuss the escape of two alleged SS war criminals from American hands in Germany Odessa, a suspected Nazi organization, is believed to have given these men access to escape the Tribunal Prison Captain James Cronley, the young officer who captured them and...I was at a disadvantage reading this novel, as I had not read any of the previous 4 Clandestine Operations books, nor any book by W.E.B Griffin Therefore, it took me a good 1 4 of the book to get into it and grasp the way the story was told The first 1 4 was really slow with almost childish dialog In fact, that is how Griffin evidently tells his stories.through dialog Once I got used to that style, and past that boring first quarter, it became a rip roarin WWII historical novel The he I was at a disadvantage reading this novel, as I had not read any of the previous 4 Clandestine Operations books, nor any book by W.E.B Griffin Therefore, it took me a good 1 4 of the book to get into it and grasp the way the story was told The first 1 4 was really slow with almost childish dialog In fact, that is how Griffin evidently tells his stories.through dialog Once I got used to that style, and...I liked this series Using some historical facts with the fiction makes for interesting reading and further research Considering so many other possibilities from such evil facts and history is scary As a teenager, I wrote short stories with a few things I knew considered facts but with a lot of my imagination All of m...

The Enemy of My Enemy (Clandestine Operations #5)
  • 14 January 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 448 pages
  • W.E.B. Griffin
  • The Enemy of My Enemy (Clandestine Operations #5)