Regular marked price: $26.95Discount Price: $17.79
Cost Savings: $9.16 (34%)Price fluctuation possible.
How soon does it ship: Normal ship time within one day
Shipping? Absolutely FREE if you qualify for Super Saver Shipping.
Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780399154409
ISBN number: 039915440X
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 432
Printing Date: January 01, 2008
Publishing house: Putnam Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 15550
Studio: Putnam Adult
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
Product Description:
The #1 New York Times-bestselling series returns with a story as up-to-date as the headlines.
The novels of W. E. B. Griffin featuring Delta Force officer Charley Castillo and his band of troubleshooters have won wide praise for their realism, action, and 'punchy prose that connects like a right hook' (Chicago Tribune).
Now, still in Argentina tying up loose ends from his investigation into the UN oil-for-food scandal, Castillo is startled when a young man is marched into his office at gunpoint, caught trying to sneak through the fence. It turns out he's an American officer, a lieutenant assigned to the embassy in Paraguay. A key agent for the DEA has disappeared while trying to interdict drugs and very little is being done about it, for phony diplomatic reasons. The lieutenant's heard of Castillo, knows what he's done, and wants his help in getting the agent back. More than that, he's got an innovative plan for dealing with the drug lords themselves.
Intrigued, Castillo gets permission to try it, but the President has just one warning for him: Don't get caught. Charley couldn't agree more-but it might turn out to be something easier said than done. . . .
Filled with Griffin's trademark rich characters and cutting-edge drama, this is an exceptional novel by 'a writer of true virtuosity and talent' (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
WEB Griffin has been my favorite author for the last twenty years, his Honor Bond and Corps series are fantastic, as is most of the Brotherhood of War. I'm not as fond of the new Presidential Agent series, they tend to have slow plot development that never quiet deliver the excitement you might expect.
This is the "least good" so far of this series, its fair at best. The plot in this book really doesn't make since, I wont spoil it for those who will read the book, but the US Government just doesn't work this way, the "Super Special Rich Guy President's Pet Spy Agency Club", just come on, really, are you serious.
The "Life Styles of the Rich and Famous" plot element that Griffin uses in EVERY book is getting tired, but the taking your pet dog everywhere you go during secret missions on your luxury jet planes, and no one having a problem with it because your so rich and dashing, is a bit much. Oh, and what's with the repeated dog going to the bathroom stuff, why is this fascinating?
I think there is a plot, besides rich guy and is peeing dog, a sub plot I guess about a kidnapped DEA Agent, but that's secondary to the main story about...
And as average as this book is, it is still better than most of the stuff out there, Griffin writes in an enjoyable style that is eminently pleasing, it's simply fun reading, well if you don't pay attention to the plot.
Rated by buyers -
I'm about done with this author. I've read everything he has written in all of his series. The earlier works were great. Lately, (I have read that his son is doing most of the writing), the books are not nearly as well written as the earlier ones.
Ditto all the previous reviewers have said about re-hashing all the previous books in this series. It's almost as if each book had to stand alone for readers who have not read any of the earlier ones in the series.
The minor thing that has irked me the most is Griffin's absolutely amazing over use of the phrase vis-a-vis. I want to throw the book across the room every time he uses it - it seems like about every other page.
Rated by buyers 
-
This novel is fourth in the Presidental Agent novels and like the three before delivers from page one and leaves you wanting more as the last page is turned. Charley Castillo is a modern day cowboy sent out at a moments notice to get the bad guys. Thank you Mr. Griffin for these wonderful books.
Rated by buyers -
Like all of Mr. Griffin's books, I could not put it down. I cannot wait for the subsequent installment.
Rated by buyers -
I don't know what some of the other reviewers are talking about, this was a great book. It delivered everything I've come to expect from a W.E.B. Griffin novel. I can't wait for the subsequent volume.
Find other books like this one:
