The Enemy of My Enemy

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

Dec 2018 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

Wondering why I wasted so much time on this turd...normally a W.E.B. fan, but this was so boring and preposterous as to boggle the mind. Imagine the likelihood of a Brigadier General calling an OSS or CIA agent "Super Spook"! It would and should be "Mr. Cronley", period. Then the extremely ridiculous assumption that a civilian woman and infant would be allowed to travel and be read in on classified information. Never! Don't forget the fantasy of this woman and infant flying in a 1940's era military transport plane from TX to Frankfurt Germany. Could the authors have made this story any more incredibly stupid? The first 280 pages are nothing but conversational masturbation kissing up to the wonderful narcissistic Mr. Cronley. Disappointing at best, W.E.B.

I've been reading his books since I was a young Corporal in the Royal Canadian Dragoons in Lahr, in 1978. Never was disapponted, always more than satisfied.

not bad. better than many of the co wrote novels.

About the author

W.E.B. Griffin is 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 lives in Fairhope, Alabama, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

William E. Butterworth IV has been an editor and writer for more than 25 years, and has worked closely with his father for over a decade on the editing and writing of the Griffin books. He is coauthor with him of more than a dozen New York Times bestselling novels. He is a member of the Sons of the American Legion, China Post #1 in Exile; the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society; and a life member of the National Rifle Association and the Texas Rifle Association. He lives in Florida.