Books written by William E. Butterworth IV

The Assassination Option

Friends or not, I'm still his commanding officer. So what do I do? Stand him at attention and demand an apology? Royally eat his ass out? His mouth went on automatic and he heard himself say, “The damage that thinking with one's male ...
The Saboteurs

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV. behind the house on Q Street.” The house on Q Street, NW, a turnofthecentury mansion that had long belonged to the wealthy Whittaker family, was being leased for one dollar a year to the Office ...
The Spymasters

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV. problem is about?” FDR pursued, his tone now icy. ... Army Captain James M.B. Whittaker (Harvard '39) was on an OSS mission in the Philippines. He had attended Saint Mark's prep school with ...
The Traffickers

He clicked on RUGER P89 and an image of the pistol popped up as an inset. Along the bottom of the image frame was a series of digitized buttons. The pistol was on a concrete floor, an inverted V plastic marker beside it bearing a black ...
The Outlaws

When a mysterious package arrives containing photographic evidence of believed-destroyed biohazard materials in use in the Congo, Charlie Castillo is called in to investigate and discovers evidence of threats at the highest levels.
The Assassination Option

He ripped the paper from the machine and handed it to Mitchell as he fed a fresh sheet of paper into the typewriter. Mitchell consulted a sheet of paper in his free hand. “Send Seven Zero Two Zero Two,” he ordered.
The Outlaws

“Do we want to start counting nickels and dimes?” Colonel Castillo asked. “Or can we get to that later?” “'Nickels and dimes'?” Sandra Britton, a slim, tall, sharp-featured blackskinned woman, parroted incredulously.
Victory and Honor

Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) • Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) ... The “J” design is a trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 ...
Death and Honor

Graham smiled at the “goddamned Americans” correctly translated and pronounced in German. Frade smiled back. “. . . and (c) how come von Wachtstein, who was in the boat with Grüner and Goltz, didn't also get his brains blown all over ...
The Honor of Spies

Assigned to help a German lieutenant colonel to escape from a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention center, World War II OSS officer Cletus Frade learns of the colonel's role in a conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler and must outmaneuver ...
The Vigilantes

Investigating a string of murders targeting criminals in Philadelphia, Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne becomes alarmed when unrelated vigilante groups begin taking credit for the hits, which become increasingly violent and high-profile.
Covert Warriors

“When's he due, Clemens?” “He should already have landed at Andrews, Mr. President,” McCarthy said. “Well, while we're waiting for him, let me bring you up to speed on what's going on around here and how I'm going to deal with it,” the ...
Top Secret

“The problem as I see it is that I'm afraid we've only begun to learn how large those gaps, those many gaps, in my experience are.” “And your decision about Schröder?” Gehlen asked. “I suggest we take him inside, give him lunch, ...
The Spymasters

Fulmar said drily in flawless German, then nodded and continued in equally flawless English: “Don't worry about me. Just make sure you guys grab the bastard after the exchange. See you back at the safe house.
The Vigilantes

Then Payne glanced back at the image and saw that 2620 WILDER ST was blinking. “That what I think it is, Kerry?” Corporal Kerry Rapier said, “I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that we're now getting a live feed coming in from the Mays crime ...
Hazardous Duty

When three U.S. tankers are hijacked by Somali pirates at the height of Mexican drug cartel violence in Laredo and El Paso, a vindictive U.S. President raises suspicions about his increasing instability by targeting forcibly retired Colonel ...
Hazardous Duty

... POTUS SUBJECT: REPORT VIA SECRETARY OF STATE MAKE AVAILABLE (EYES ONLY) TO: DIRECTOR, CIA SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE C IN CCENTRAL COMMAND OORSITREP #2 E.LORIMER, EDMUND F. BRITTON, JOHN G. BRITTON, DR.
Broken Trust

The dramatic New York Times-bestselling adventure in W.E.B. Griffin’s Badge of Honor series about the Philadelphia police force.
Death at Nuremberg

Assigned to the Nuremberg war trials, special agent James Cronley Jr. finds himself fighting several wars at once in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Cold War When Jim ...
Victory and Honor

W.E. B. Griffin returns to his Honor Bound series set in the shadows of World War II espionage in South America… May 1945: Just weeks after Hitler’s suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services are ...