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Summary: New twists by a veteran author
Review: This is an excellent book by W.E.B. Griffith, who has brought you some of the all time military classics such as the Brotherhood of War series. This dramatic book keeps you turning the pages, and allows you to almost be there with great descriptive writing.
Great book
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Summary: A disappointing sequel.
Review: Unlike most of W.E.B. Griffin's books which skillfully blend the story with historical background, 'Blood and Honor' paints a fascinating historical perspective at the expense of the story. The story line is much sketchier and less believeable than the original 'Honorbound'. I was not as caught up in the story as I usually am with Mr. Griffin's books. It is as if Mr. Griffin got caught up in the killing side of international intrique rather than exploring the full range of possibilities ans he did in 'Honorbound'.
Overall, I would recommend this book the the loyal fans of Mr. Griffen or those who are looking for the details of WWII South American intrique.
It is my hope that this is a bridge to future books in the series that will depend on the historical background and develop an interesting story off the background.
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Summary: Believable WWII covert counterstrikes in neutral Argentina
Review: W.E.B. Griffin does it again. Blood and Honor, the next in sequence to Honor Bound is true to form -- a fast paced military novel wrapped up in intricate details of the time, the geography, and the aura of World War II. His characters are even more interesting in this series than in Brotherhood of War or The Corps; and his change of local to neutral Argentina is truly an interesting change from the war torn world of the time. Let's hope there are to be more in this series.
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Summary: I SEE YOU'VE DECIDED TO HUMILIATE YOURSELF IN PUBLIC
Review: What I liked most about the first book, Honor Bound, was Colonel Frade: His interactions with his son, sister, friends, neighbor/best friend/paramour, subaltern; his multi-faceted complexity and inconsistency; his aloofness and vulerability, competence and incompetence, stoicism and emotionalism, sensitivity and insensitivity. Most of all, his sense of honor, which led him to adopt his son's causes, monetary debts, and debts of honor as his own even though he is outraged by the uncultured, impudent talk and behavior of that same son.To create an entirely dispensable motivational plot-hook cliche, Griffin gratuitously killed off this fine character in the first three pages of the second book. I did not read further.
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Summary: Opportunity Foolishly Thrown Away
Review: What I liked most about the first book, Honor Bound, was Colonel Frade: His interactions with his son, sister, friends, neighbor/best friend/paramour, subaltern; his multi-faceted complexity and inconsistency; his aloofness and vulerability, competence and incompetence, stoicism and emotionalism, sensitivity and insensitivity. Most of all, his sense of honor, which led him to adopt his son's causes, monetary debts, and debts of honor as his own even though he is outraged by the uncultured, impudent talk and behavior of that same son. To create an entirely dispensable motivational plot-hook cliche, Griffin gratuitously killed off this fine character in the first three pages of the second book. I did not read further.
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