The Hostage, W.E.B. Griffin
The Hostage, W.E.B. Griffin
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The Hostage
A Presidential Agent Novel

Author: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 17 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/03/2006


Synopsis

By Order of the President, the first novel in Griffin’s crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike. “True virtuosity,” praised the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Cutting-edge,” agreed Publishers Weekly. “The end leaves readers standing on the tarmac waiting for Castillo and his newly minted band of can-do compatriots to touch down and carry them away again on a new adventure.”Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more is the man to whom the President turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now.An American diplomat’s wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is told, if she doesn’t tell them where her brother is—a brother, as it turns out, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, and an awful lot of hands are reaching up to grab it—and some of those hands don’t mind shedding as much blood as it takes.Before the investigation is over...it might even be Castillo’s blood.

About W.E.B. Griffin

W. E. B. Griffin is also the author of the bestselling Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, and Honor Bound series. He has been invested into the orders of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association and St. Andrew of the U.S. Army Aviation Association, and is a life member of the U.S. Special Operations Association; Gaston-Lee Post 5660, Veterans of Foreign Wars; China Post #1 in Exile of the American Legion; and the Police Chiefs Association of Southeast Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, and Delaware. He is an honorary life member of the U.S. Army Otter & Caribou Association, the U.S. Army Special Forces Association, the U.S. Marine Corps Raider Association, and the USMC Combat Correspondents Association.


Reviews

Oil for food, a great program right? No chance that someone will use it for personal gain. The Hostage continues where the previous book left us. Castillo is still hunting the ones behind the kidnapping of Mrs. Masterson and murder of Mr. Masterson. I really like this series by W.E.B. Griffin and th......more

Goodreads review by Diana

What I have seen from this author is that the ending isn't the most important thing, its the journey that the characters took to get there. Compared to the first novel, this one was definitely chunky. But, it seems that the extra length resulted in a bit more of a faster pace and there was definitel......more