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Special Ops

Brotherhood of War, Book 9

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Special Ops

By: W. E. B. Griffin
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
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In November 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo with two hundred men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and South America. He failed, thanks in large part to the efforts of an intrepid band of Green Berets. Licking his wounds, he retreated to Cuba to recruit more men and try the same thing in Bolivia. He failed there, too. In fact, he died there, and thus, despite his incompetence, became a glorious martyr to the cause. But who was trying to kill him, really - and who was trying to keep him alive?

The brotherhood is back - Craig Lowell, Sandy Felter, Jack Portet, Geoff Craig, Robert Bellmon, George Washington "Father" Lunsford, Master Sergeant Doubting Thomas - and their mission has never been more dramatic and deadly.

©2008 W.E.B. Griffin (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Military Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense War & Military Africa War Crime Latin America Air Force

Critic reviews

"Strongly reminiscent of modern American military classics From Here to Eternity and The Winds of War.… An intricately layered, epic novel." ( Publishers Weekly)
Historical Integration • Military Authenticity • Wonderful Narration • Believable Plot • Detailed Storytelling
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Final book of the series, but not chronologically. Old and new characters chase Che' in the Congo; a strange mix of tactical operations combined with President Johnson's hands-on approach. I enjoyed the book and the series. Will try another Griffin series.

Fun Read

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The first fifteen percent of this novel follows very closely the action that was already related in The New Breed and The Aviators and that was a very sad mistake on the part of Griffin. Many of the lines and descriptions are exactly the same and since I’ve been reading the books in quick succession, that almost deterred to me from finishing this final book in the series. I pushed on because I have an eight-book investment already, and I’m glad I did, but the first chapters tried my patience.

The plot of the story is a U.S. special operation to try and deal with Che Guevara by humiliating him and therefore breaking his effectiveness as a communist leader (as opposed to simply killing him and turning him into a martyr). The majority of the focus is on Che Guevara’s attempts to destabilize the Congo. As is usual for Griffin, most of the book is about military politics and the behind the scenes actions necessary to support a special operation in the fields. A significant subplot is the need to keep the operation secret, something endangered both by tragic accidents in the field and by self-important military officers who have a hard time accepting that there is something they don’t have a need to know.

This is the last of The Brotherhood of War series and it’s significantly longer than the other books. It’s not, unfortunately, the strongest of the novels and the ending very much has an ‘I need to wrap this up’ feel to it.

The Last Book in a Great Series

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Amazing character development. Believable & entertaining plot that is fun to follow and easy to suspend disbelief. Authors was detail oriented when describing anything military so interactions didn't seem like a civilians thought on what military life is like. Only wish I could read it again for the first time.

Great Author, Great Series, Great Book!

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The cast of characters nearly forces you to continue listening. Overall it adds bits and pieces to the story.

Characters

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love the series been through it five times will do it again in a couple of years. sad that we won't get any more books from Mr Griffin or should I say Butterworth. thank you for all this enjoyment sir
also Eric g Dove does a wonderful narration of most of his books I believe

RIP WEB Griffin

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overall a good read. There were too many time/date stamps, but I guess they were necessary to the plot. The story ends very abruptly. I will listen to it again and recommend it to others who like special opp type books.

Good Special Opps Read

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Looking forward to book 10 of this Series. Loved the characters!
Book nine was excellent!

Outstanding!

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Some of my favorites especially ocean reef club and meeting with pistorini but seems to drag at the end.

Some of my favorites.

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I was sad to reach the last book in the series.
Starting the next series tomorrow.
Spell bound the entire series. W.E. B. did it very well again.

awesome series

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whole chapters have been copied word for word from previous books I think author just wanted to end the series without to much work. The final 40 mins are just reports, but no story very disappointing

disappointing

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