Audiobooks by W.E.B. Griffin

JANUARY: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them into the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake. And their last. One of the WACs, a blonde improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded. The "incident," however, will send shock waves rippling up and down the line and have major repercussions not only for her but for her boss, James Cronley, Chief, DCI-Europe, and everybody involved in their still-evolving enterprise. For although the Germans may have been defeated, Cronley and his company are on the front lines of an entirely different kind of war now. The enemy has changed, the rules have changed-and the stakes have never been higher. Filled with all the authenticity, color, and propulsive storytelling for which Griffin is acclaimed, Curtain of Death is top-level drama from the master of the military thriller.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Author), Alexander Cendese (Narrator)

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Broken Trust

Having investigated his share of gruesome killings, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him-until the case of a young socialite's death lands on his desk. The Camilla Rose Morgan he'd known for years was beautiful and brilliant, juggling charity fund-raisers while working toward the MBA that would let her take her place in the family's multibillion-dollar company. How was it possible that she'd jumped from the balcony of her Rittenhouse Square penthouse? Her brother tells Payne she'd tragically been battling a lifetime of mental demons, and there is plenty of evidence to support what he says, but still...something just doesn't sit right. The more Payne digs, the more complications he discovers, and when someone slips him copies of trust fund papers that Camilla Rose was fighting bitterly to have nullified just before her death, an even darker picture begins to emerge. Payne is going to have to tread carefully here. Powerful forces are at work, reputations and lives are on the line. If he takes one step wrong, his own life may be among them.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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Deadly Assets

In Philadelphia-already suffering among the country's highest murder rates-homicide is at an all-time high. With each violent crime, tension builds between the police department, the mayor's office, and the Citizens Police Oversight Committee. The most vocal activist, reformed drug dealer Reverend Josiah Cross, places the blame, and with it, a target, squarely on the back of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne. Now Payne must navigate death threats and misdirected public outrage to follow a strange pattern in seemingly unrelated killings. As chanting protesters fill the streets, the city threatens to erupt. Payne has gone from “Wyatt Earp of the Main Line” to “Public Enemy Number One.” Ordered to stay out of the line of fire, he struggles to solve the murder of a reporter who was just as unwilling as Payne himself to let death threats keep him from his job. As Sergeant Payne looks for justice, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mickey O'Hara looks to finish the story where his fellow reporter left off. Both men know that they cannot back down, though this may be the end of their reputations, their work, and even their lives. Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself. It's a story of fears and dangers, courage and loyalty, genuine heroism and love-storytelling at its absolute best.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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The Assassination Option

In Top Secret, W. E. B. Griffin introduced a remarkable new cast of heroes as they found themselves on the front lines of an entirely different kind of war. Now those men and women are going to find out what they’ve really gotten themselves into. James Cronley thought he had done well—he didn’t know he’d done this well. His first successful mission for the about-to-be-official new Directorate of Central Intelligence has drawn all kinds of attention, some welcome, some not. On the plus side, he’s now a captain, promoted to chief, DCI-Europe, and in charge of a top-secret spy operation. On the minus side, a lot of people would like to know about that operation, including not only the Soviets but also his own Pentagon, as well as a seething J. Edgar Hoover. Cronley knows that if just one thing goes wrong, he’s likely to get thrown to the wolves. As if that weren’t enough pressure, complications are springing up on all sides. He’s discovered a surprising alliance between the former German intelligence chief and, of all things, the Mossad. A German family whom Cronley never knew he had has suddenly, and suspiciously, emerged. And he’s due for a rendezvous with an undercover agent against the Soviets known only as Seven-K. It’s when he meets Seven-K that he gets the real surprise. Filled with all the authenticity, color, and propulsive storytelling for which Griffin is acclaimed, The Assassination Option is top-level drama from the master of the military thriller.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth Iv (Author), Alexander Cendese, William E. Butterworth IV (Narrator)

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Top Secret

In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr.—blond, blue-eyed, six-foot-one, out of Midland, Texas—is recruited for a new covert enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Soviet Union. The Soviets have hit the ground running, and Cronley’s job is to help frustrate them, harass them, and spy on them in any way he can. His recruiter thinks he has the potential to become an asset—though, of course, he could also screw up spectacularly. And in his first top-secret assignment, it looks like that’s exactly what may happen. He’s got seven days to extract a vital piece of information from a Soviet agent, but Cronley’s managed to rile up his superior officers (he seems to have a talent for it), and if he fails, it may be one of the shortest intelligence careers in history. There are enemies everywhere—and, as Cronley is about to find out, some of them even wear the same uniform he does. Filled with the authenticity, color, and propulsive storytelling for which Griffin is acclaimed, Top Secret marks the beginning of a galvanizing new series—and new hero.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth Iv (Author), William E. Butterworth IV (Narrator)

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Hazardous Duty

Praise for the Presidential Agent series “Tough-fisted . . . hard-edged . . . Griffin’s formula is straightforward: set up a bunch of obstacles, and let us watch Charley Castillo knock them down one at a time. His novels promise action, suspense, and rousing entertainment, and they never fail to deliver.' — Booklist The Presidential Agent adventures return, in the most surprising novel yet in the #1 Wall Street Journal – and New York Times–bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President of the United States is fed up and, as Commander in Chief, has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea — to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and get them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo’s guts, and has just had him forcibly retired from the military, and now Castillo’s men are scattered far and wide, many of them in hiding. There are also whispers that the President himself is unstable — the word “nutcake” has been mentioned. How will it all play out? No one knows for sure, but for Castillo and company, only one thing is definite: This is going to be hazardous duty.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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Final Justice

Just as with his remarkable military novels, millions of readers have been captured by the rich characters and vivid realism of Griffin''s police dramas. Now, in Final Justice, Detective Matt Payne -- newly promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Homicide -- finds himself in the middle of three major assignments. The first, a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant, seems simple, but rapidly becomes complicated. The second begins complicated and only gets more so, as Payne becomes involved with a local guru who has fled the country, leaving behind the mutilated body of his girlfriend in a trunk. And, as if that weren''t enough, the self-absorbed star of a series of improbable movies comes into town -- and it is his presence that will complicate Payne''s life most of all. Filled with color and detail and plots as real as the headlines, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself.

W.E.B. Griffin (Author), Patrick Lawlor (Narrator)

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The Murderers

A Philadelphia narcotics cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner''s wife and partner are gunned down during an attempted robbery. And in a beautiful mansion, a young woman dies of a heroin overdose. At first the crimes seem unconnected. But these four deaths are about to trigger a massive convergence of corruption, cops, and the mob that could tear the Philadelphia Police Department apart from the inside out. All the way to the top...

W.E.B. Griffin (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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Under Fire

Korea, June 1, 1950. Captain Ken McCoy’s report on probable North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that not only is it promptly suppressed, but McCoy himself is kicked out of the Corps. At least two outfits, however, are not impressed by such infighting: the fledgling CIA, which promptly hires McCoy; and the North Koreans, who on June 25th invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately, veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours’ notice. For Fleming Pickering and Pick, his daredevil son, and Ed Banning, George Hart, Jack Stecker, Jake Dillon, Ernie Zimmerman—and for the women who love them—names such as Inchon and Pusan will acquire a new, bloody reality, and Korea will become not only a new battlefield—but their greatest challenge of all...

W.E.B. Griffin (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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The Last Witness

For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, investigating a young woman’s murder in a Society Hill home invasion uncovers an ugly underworld — that of Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Foreign girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia — and Payne learns that’s not all. Teenage American girls lured from local foster homes have vanished. And the lone living witness has gone into hiding. He knows it’s got to be connected — but how? And it doesn’t help that his gut says it somehow involves that high-rolling politician last seen near the Caribbean in a casino’s airplane. For Payne, finding that last witness is absolutely critical — before the Russians, the cartels, or anyone else gets to her first. Filled with authentic color and detail, this is a riveting novel of the men and women who put their lives on the line, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself. It’s a story of fears and dangers, courage and loyalty, genuine heroism and love — storytelling at its absolute best.

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator)

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In Danger's Path

Desperate to find someone to unite the battling interests of General Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and OSS Chief “Wild Bill” Donovan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt puts Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS’s Pacific operations. Immediately, two urgent missions fall into his lap: to contact and rescue a band of former American servicemen and their dependents on the run from the Japanese in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia; and at the same time, to set up a weather station in the Gobi to help direct planned aerial attacks against Japan. Pickering has a free hand to use whomever he pleases, and he is soon surrounded by many of the Marines on whom he has come to rely during the war: men like Ken McCoy, Ed Banning, Jake Dillon, Ernie Zimmerman, and — much to his surprise — a certain hotshot pilot named Malcolm Pickering, his son. Together they will venture in terra very much incognita — and with luck they may even come out alive...

W.E.B. Griffin (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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Close Combat

As Japanese forces close in for an all-out effort to recapture Guadalcanal from the American forces occupying the island, many fates converge and intertwine. First Lieutenant William Dunn, twenty-one years old but already one of the only two pilots remaining from his fighter squadron's original sixteen, must learn what it is like to lead men-and to lose them. Hot-tempered Sergeant Thomas McCoy finds he has a hero's welcome waiting stateside-if he can avoid a court-martial first. On a bloody island, Major Jake Dillon discovers just how much combat is involved in a combat correspondent's life. First Lieutenant R.B. Macklin, a consummate bully, is put on a War Bond tour so he will not endanger his own men. General Fleming Pickering, on a ticklish diplomatic mission, attempts to balance the hot and mighty temperaments of General Douglas MacArthur, OSS Chief William "Wild Bill" Donovan and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. Corporal Robert Easterbrook, still wet behind the ears, discovers that the price of success in wartime may be uncomfortably high. From the Solomons to Australia to Washington, D.C., the warriors, plus the wives and sweethearts who love them, once more find themselves with the challenges of their lives... With the body count rising, the odd couple of the Philadelphia cop and the Texas lawman races to find them and make them pay for it....unless the cartel manages to find them first.

W.E.B. Griffin (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)

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