Covert Warriors

W.E.B. Griffin · William E. Butterworth IV

Dec 2011 · Presidential Agent Book 7 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

Charley Castillo and the former members of Presidential Agent’s Office of Organizational Analysis are officially “retired.” But that doesn’t mean they’re out of action…

At a Mexican roadblock, a US Embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers murdered, and a fourth kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from US federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his group of retired spies and special operators, they have their doubts.

They believe that it's a diversion—that the murders and kidnapping were ordered by someone to lure Castillo & Company to their deaths. But even knowing that may not save them. Powerful forces in the US government are arrayed against them as well, and if one side doesn't get them...the other side will.

Ratings and reviews

This book followed the usual formula (it's a great formula) but the ending of this one just kinda dropped off after an awesome crescendo. It was a bit disappointing but I will still be anxious to read the next one.

My first issue - Castillo is no longer even a Presidential Agent, which is the name of the series. He is now a childish playboy renegade instead of the savvy special forces operator we first met. I hate Svetlana being called 'Sweaty' and the fact that her character has become so dominant over Charley. And lets not talk about the overbearing attention given to Max the dog. Can we please go back to Castillo being an intelligent federal agent with dual citizenship who kills people and blows things up?

I was really looking forward to the next one in the series and ran out and bought it. It was not bad but it was kind of drawn out for what it was. It spends most of the book planning and finding out stiff then in the last couple of pages it happens. Overall it wasn't bad

About the author

W. E. B. Griffin was the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations. He passed away in February 2019.

William E. Butterworth IV has been an editor and a writer for more than twenty-five years, and has worked closely with his father for a decade on the editing of the Griffin books. He is the coauthor of nine Griffin novels in the bestselling Presidential Agent, Honor Bound, Badge of Honor, and Men at War series. He is a member of the Sons of the American Legion China Post #1 in Exile, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society, and life member of the National Rifle Association and the Texas Rifle Association.