![]() So, how would I rate W.E.B Griffin and “The Hostage”? A straight ZERO, regardless of the scale of reference. As you might have guessed, her supposed murder mystery also gets distracted by random nonsense, weakening both plot and characters. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Look, maybe conservatives have it right, and liberals have it wrong, but good mystery fiction should leave politics out (a novel presented as explicitly political can have any amount of delusion added to it) and for heaven’s sake, have an actual plot, with actual villains, who MUST be revealed in some way, shape or form! So, all said, I will still keep listening to books from diverse authors, though, I did recently listen to Catherine Coulter and her anti-Bill Clinton tirades, which is just really sad. : The Hostage - A Presidential Agent Novel (9780727862709) by Griffin, W.E.B. I don’t know how I survived, but it almost made me rethink wanting to look for diversity in reading choices. To get us there, it takes us through a meaninglessly rich hero, an extremely iconoclastic President (not in a good way) who sets up agencies left and right, extremely dysfunctional CIA agents, Fox News as the preferred viewing choice and some meandering WW II stuff. Well, the villain, or one of them anyway, teaches us how to make some crappy beef dish for half the last CD, and the novel ends really nonsensically, with NO plot! So, I did listen to this one towards the end, only if to search for what idiotic right wing (because that is the bent of this un-storied work of high-functioning gibberish as well) plot would be framed in the end. At 15 CDs, I thought he would get it right somehow. ![]() Griffin was going to go down the same path, as has been my experience with these types of novels, but the $2 price was too enticing. PRESIDENTIAL AGENT BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT THE HOSTAGE THE HUNTERS THE. It was the first CD, and within 5 minutes, the author with his intolerable right wing swill, which by the way was all about attacking the left wing, did away with all mystery, entertainment and good feelings. Also by W.E.B Griffin THE LAST WITNESS ( and William E. The second in Griffins Presidential Agent series finds Charley Castillo, who reports directly to the President, baffled by the murder of a U.S. Griffin lives in Alabama and Argentina.I once stopped a Vincent Flynn Book on CD disk and heaved the whole set in the recycle bin as quickly as I could. Marine Raider Association, and the USMC Combat Correspondents Association. Army Special Forces Association, the U.S. Army Otter & Caribou Association, the U.S. Griffins 1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping. He is an honorary life member of the U.S. Special Operations Association and is a member of Gaston-Lee Post 5660, Veterans of Foreign Wars the American Legion, China Post #1 in Exile the Police Chiefs Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and the State of Delaware the National Rifle Association the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society and the Flat Earth Society (Pensacola, Florida, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, chapters). Michael of the Army Aviation Association of America, and is a life member of the U.S. Griffin, was an American writer of military and detective fiction with 59 novels in seven series published under that name. He has been invested into the orders of St. William Edmund Butterworth III (Novem February 12, 2019), better known by his pen name W. Griffin is the author of six other bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, and Presidential Agent series.
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