Top Secret
A Clandestine Operations Novel: Book #1
- By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War—and a different breed of warrior.
In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new 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 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 assignment, it looks like that’s exactly what might 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 could 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.
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A Clandestine Operations Novel Series
Top Secret
By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
Length: 13 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War—and a different breed of warrior.
In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may... Read more »
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The Assassination Option
By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 11 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times— and Wall Street Journal—bestselling author comes the dramatic second adventure in the brand-new Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency—and a new breed of warrior.
In Top Secret, W.E.B. Griffin introduced a remarkable new cast of heroes as they found themselves on the... Read more »
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Curtain of Death
By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
From #1 New York Times bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin comes the dramatic third novel in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency—and a new breed of warrior.
January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers’ club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot... Read more »
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Death at Nuremberg
By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
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 Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big... Read more »
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The Enemy of My Enemy
By: W.E.B. Griffin & William E. Butterworth IV
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War.
A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian... Read more »