Death and honor
By: W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV
Contributors: Butterworth, William E. (William Edmund)
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780399154980
Subjects: United States; United States. Marine Corps; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; History
Description: The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two interwoven German operations: a government scheme for Jews outside the Fatherland to purchase the freedom of their relatives in concentration camps, who will then be transported to Argentina and Uruguay; and a plan called Operation Phoenix.