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The year is 1943, and Argentine is officially neutral but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine fighter pilot ace recreited as a spy by the Office of of Strategic Services. He has strong family ties to Argentine, and in Death and Honor -- Griffin's fourth book in the series, his first since 1999 -- Frade has got a lot on his hands. OSS chief "Wild Bill" Donovan has asked him to set up in Argentina his own official-but-reall-OSS airline, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars. Of even more concern are two interwoven, highly secret German operations. The first is a Nazi scheme for German Jews outside the Fatherland to purchase the freedom of their relatives in concentration camps. The second has to do with where all that dirty money is going: a plan called OPERATION PHOENIX, which will establish safe havens in Argentina , Brazil, and Paraguay for senior Nazi officials who fear thwy've all but lost the war. Needless to say, the OSS is very interested in both operations -- which is to say President Franklin Roosevelt is very interested -- and Frade, whose father's murder was ordered by the Nazis, jknows taht's dam easier said than done. |
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