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William E. Butterworth

    Deze auteur is een erkende meester in militaire en detectivefictie, gevierd om een productief en divers oeuvre. Zijn schrijfstijl is meeslepend en trekt lezers mee naar spannende werelden vol actie en intriges. Met een scherp begrip van militaire settings en criminele onderzoeken, verweeft hij vakkundig complexe plots en creëert hij onvergetelijke personages. Zijn verhalen getuigen van zijn vermogen om opwindende en doordachte vertellingen te leveren die zelfs de meest veeleisende genre-enthousiastelingen tevredenstellen.

    William E. Butterworth
    Top Secret
    Leroy and the Old Man
    The Assassination Option
    Death at Nuremberg
    Death and Honor
    The Enemy of My Enemy
    • The Enemy of My Enemy

      • 387bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      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 more 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.

      The Enemy of My Enemy
      4,2
    • Recruited by Wild Bill Donovan to set up an airline that will be an OSS front in 1943 Argentina, Marine pilot Cletus Frade monitors two German operations, including a concentration-camp smuggling ring and a Nazi protection group. Reprint.

      Death and Honor
      4,1
    • Death at Nuremberg

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      Assigned to the Nuremberg war trials, special agent James Cronley, Jr., finds himself fighting several wars at once, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Cold War. When Jim Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big one: he's out as Chief, DCI-Europe. His new assignments, however, couldn't be bigger: to protect the U.S. chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials from a rumored Soviet NKGB kidnapping, and to hunt down and dismantle the infamous Odessa, an organization dedicated to helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. It doesn't take long for the first attempt on his life, and then the second. NKGB or Odessa? Who can tell? The deeper he pushes, the more secrets tumble out: a scheme to swap Nazi gold for currency, a religious cult organized around Himmler himself, an NKGB agent who is actually working for the Mossad, a German cousin who turns out to be more malevolent than he appears--and a distractingly attractive newspaperwoman who seems to be asking an awful lot of questions. Which one will turn out to be the most dangerous? Cronley wishes he knew.

      Death at Nuremberg
      4,0
    • The Assassination Option

      • 481bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      Promoted and placed in charge of a top-secret spy operation for a fledgling Central Intelligence Agency, James Cronley discovers links between the former German intelligence chief and the Mossad before receiving shocking intelligence from an undercover agent. By the #1 best-selling authors of Top Secret.

      The Assassination Option
      4,0
    • Leroy and the Old Man

      • 168bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      When Leroy witnesses a mugging, he must decide whether to remain safe and silent or speak up and reveal what he saw.

      Leroy and the Old Man
      3,6
    • Top Secret

      • 546bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen

      From #1 New York Times bestselling authors W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV comes the first Clandestine Operations novel—featuring a new kind of threat and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, James D. Cronley, Jr., is recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. For a new war has already begun against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Soviet Union. The Soviets have hit the ground running, and Cronley’s job is to help frustrate them, harass them, and spy on them any way he can. But his first assignment might be his last. He’s got only seven days to extract a vital piece of information from a Soviet agent, and he’s already managed to rile up his superior officers. If he fails now, his intelligence career could be the shortest in history. Because there are enemies everywhere—and, as Cronley is about to find out, some of them wear the same uniform he does...

      Top Secret
      3,9
    • Das Marine-Corps

      • 446bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Militärische Beratung Grünwald, Hermann Mit Abb. 446 S.

      Das Marine-Corps
      3,0