The Saboteurs (Men at War)
by W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV
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Author: W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IVEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-29
ISBN: 0515143065
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Jove
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Book Review: This book is terrible
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book because I had read an entertaining WEB Griffin book about a Luftwaffe pilot in Argentina.
Unfortunately, it looks like WEB didn't write this book. It is absolutely terrible.
There are 2 or 3 plot lines, all of which are pointless.
One plot line includes German saboteurs in the US. The FBI and the OSS are after them independently. Who wins? Well one set of saboteurs blows themselves up accidentally. The other set crosses the mafia, and is killed by them. So the entire subplot involving J Edgar Hoover, The FBI, FDR, and an OSS Agent is totally pointless. The mob is involved in another plotline wherein The Protagonist Guy (hereafter, TPG) wants to create an espionage network in Italy. It's really just an excuse for stereotypical mob talk and toughness. After many pages, TPG goes to Italy and doesn't require mob assistance. The entire subplot is thus pointless.
In the first few pages of the book, a scientist sees bad things happening around him. In the last few pages, TPG rescues him. The 300 pages in the middle have nothing to do with this scientist. The rescue happens in about the last 4 pages. TPG walks though German-held territory without seeing a soldier, walks into the town, gets the professor, and they walk to the dock. In an unbelievable coincidence, a mob-related fisherman from NJ (whom TPG knows) pulls up RANDOMLY at the dock. Randomly. The scientist and TPG get on the boat. But as they are leaving the dock, TPG finds out that a freighter RIGHT THERE is carrying NERVE GAS. He leaps off the boat saying, "If I am not back in 10 minutes, leave without me..." (*snort*) A few minutes later, the freighter blows up! (There are apparently no guards and nothing is explained. This whole freighter thing happens in a single page.) But it's been 10 minutes and TPG isn't back! The boat starts to leave! TPG jumps out of the darkness an onto the boat! YAY! And then TPG's pickup submarine arrives 4 days early and picks them up at the wrong spot. What luck! The End.
Stinkarooni.
And there is no suspense.
Summary of The Saboteurs (Men at War)
W.E.B. Griffin continues his gripping Men at War series, featuring the legendary OSS.As the Battle of the Atlantic rages, German U-boats are sinking U.S. vessels at will. Meanwhile, preparations are being made to invade Sicily and Italy. As the war heats up, "Wild Bill" Donovan and his secret agents find themselves battling on two fronts at once. And fate is about to deal them a surprise that may doom them all.
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