The New Breed

It is difficult to write reviews for the books in this series because I am reading them so quickly. I bought all of them at one time and have been going non-stop so that as soon as I finish one I just start the next leaving me no time to pause and write a review. However, I felt this book deserved a......more

After finishing "The Generals" (which ends with an epilogue in the style of Where They Are Now), I was a bit surprised when Book 7 in Griffin's "Brotherhood of War" series opened in 1963 with Sandy Felter in his first meeting with newly-installed President Lyndon Johnson. I thought the story in the......more

Paper Pushers of Darkness The New Breed should have been marketed as a spin-off series. The original protagonists play mere cameos, proving my thesis that the series would be better without the deadbeat father and serial adulterer Lowell. Instead, the ever-brilliant Felter masterminds various mis......more

My favorite so far of the entire series. After the last volume, "The Generals" I really thought that they were finished, if you read it, you'll see why at the end of the book. But this book brings back most of our beloved characters, and moves to the front many of the secondary characters of previous......more

Most accounts of the military in the sixties focus on the War in Vietnam, but America was fighting against communist efforts to destabilize regimes in other parts of the world as well. One of those fights took place in the Congo—an incredibly complicated area struggling with the remains of Belgian c......more