The Assassination Option: 2 (A Clandestine Operations Novel)

Author: Griffin, W.E.B.

Brand: G.P. Putnam's Sons

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

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• Putnam Pub Group

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 496

Release Date: 24-11-2015

Part Number: 0515155691_used

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  James Cronley’s first successful mission for the new Central Intelligence Directorate has drawn all kinds of attention, some welcome, some not, including from the Soviets, his own Pentagon, and a seething J. Edgar Hoover. Now complications have sprung  up all over, including a surprising alliance between the Germans and, of all things, the Mossad; and an unplanned meeting with an undercover agent against the Soviets known only as Seven K.. Cronley knows that if just one thing goes wrong, he’s likely to get thrown to the wolves. And he thinks he hears them howling now.


Review


“A Griffin adventure to bring out the Walter Mitty in every red-white-and-blue-blooded American male.” --
Kirkus Reviews

 
“Engaging…It’s a testament to the authors’ skill and wide experience that the pages seem to turn themselves.” --
Publishers Weekly

 
“The makings of an excellent series. The period between WWII and the Cold War offers raw material for several books, and as fans of Griffin’s body of work are well aware, he really sinks his teeth into politics and history.” --
Booklist


About the Author


Griffin is the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and now Clandestine Operations. He lives in Fairhope, Alabama, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 

William E. Butterworth IV has been a writer and editor for major newspapers and magazines for over twenty-five years, and has worked closely with his father for several years on the editing of the Griffin books. He is the co-author of several novels in the Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, and Presidential Agent series.
He lives in St.Petersburg, Florida.


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PROLOGUE

Early in 1943, at a time when victory was by no means certain, Great
Britain, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States
of America—“the Allies”—signed what became known as “the Moscow
Declaration.” It stated that the leaders of Germany, Italy, and
Japan—“the Axis Powers”—would be held responsible for atrocities
committed during the war.

In December of that year, the Allied leaders—Prime Minister
Winston Churchill of England, General Secretary Joseph V. Stalin of
the Soviet Union, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United
States—met secretly in Tehran, Iran, under the code name Project Eureka.
The meeting later came to be known as the Tehran Conference.

At a dinner in Tehran on December 29, 1943, while discussing
the Moscow Declaration, Stalin proposed the summary execution of
fifty thousand to one hundred thousand German staff officers immediately
following the defeat of the Thousand-Year Reich. Roosevelt
thought he was joking, and asked if he would be satisfied with “the
summary execution of a lesser number, say, forty-nine thousand.”

Churchill took the Communist leader at his word, and angrily announced
he would have nothing to do with “the cold-blooded execution
of soldiers who fought for their country,” adding that he’d “rather
be taken out in the courtyard and shot myself” than partake in any
such action.

The war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, with the unconditional
surrender of Germany.

In London, on August 8, 1945, the four Allied powers—France,
after its liberation, had by then become sort of a junior member—
signed “the Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the
Major War Criminals of the European Axis Powers.”

“The London Agreement” proclaimed that the senior Nazi leaders
would be tried on behalf of the newly formed United Nations at
Nuremberg, and that lesser officials would be tried at trials to be held
in each of the four zones of occupation into which Germany was to be
divided.

The Soviet Union wanted the trials to be held in Berlin, but the
other three Allies insisted they be held in Nuremberg, in Bavaria, in
the American Zone of Occupation. Their public argument was that
not only was Nuremberg th

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