{"product_id":"the-assassination-option-2-a-clandestine-operations-novel","title":"The Assassination Option: 2 (A Clandestine Operations Novel)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Griffin, W.E.B.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e G.P. Putnam's Sons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Multicolor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition:\u003c\/b\u003e Reprint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003ePutnam Pub Group\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 24-11-2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 0515155691_used\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n  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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nReview\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“A Griffin adventure to bring out the Walter Mitty in every red-white-and-blue-blooded American male.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n “Engaging…It’s a testament to the authors’ skill and wide experience that the pages seem to turn themselves.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nPublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\n “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.” --\u003cbr\u003e\nBooklist\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGriffin 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n  \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n He lives in St.Petersburg, Florida.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPROLOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nEarly in 1943, at a time when victory was by no means certain, Great\u003cbr\u003e\nBritain, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States\u003cbr\u003e\nof America—“the Allies”—signed what became known as “the Moscow\u003cbr\u003e\nDeclaration.” It stated that the leaders of Germany, Italy, and\u003cbr\u003e\nJapan—“the Axis Powers”—would be held responsible for atrocities\u003cbr\u003e\ncommitted during the war.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn December of that year, the Allied leaders—Prime Minister\u003cbr\u003e\nWinston Churchill of England, General Secretary Joseph V. Stalin of\u003cbr\u003e\nthe Soviet Union, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United\u003cbr\u003e\nStates—met secretly in Tehran, Iran, under the code name Project Eureka.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe meeting later came to be known as the Tehran Conference.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAt a dinner in Tehran on December 29, 1943, while discussing\u003cbr\u003e\nthe Moscow Declaration, Stalin proposed the summary execution of\u003cbr\u003e\nfifty thousand to one hundred thousand German staff officers immediately\u003cbr\u003e\nfollowing the defeat of the Thousand-Year Reich. Roosevelt\u003cbr\u003e\nthought he was joking, and asked if he would be satisfied with “the\u003cbr\u003e\nsummary execution of a lesser number, say, forty-nine thousand.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nChurchill took the Communist leader at his word, and angrily announced\u003cbr\u003e\nhe would have nothing to do with “the cold-blooded execution\u003cbr\u003e\nof soldiers who fought for their country,” adding that he’d “rather\u003cbr\u003e\nbe taken out in the courtyard and shot myself” than partake in any\u003cbr\u003e\nsuch action.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945, with the unconditional\u003cbr\u003e\nsurrender of Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn London, on August 8, 1945, the four Allied powers—France,\u003cbr\u003e\nafter its liberation, had by then become sort of a junior member—\u003cbr\u003e\nsigned “the Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of the\u003cbr\u003e\nMajor War Criminals of the European Axis Powers.”\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“The London Agreement” proclaimed that the senior Nazi leaders\u003cbr\u003e\nwould be tried on behalf of the newly formed United Nations at\u003cbr\u003e\nNuremberg, and that lesser officials would be tried at trials to be held\u003cbr\u003e\nin each of the four zones of occupation into which Germany was to be\u003cbr\u003e\ndivided.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Soviet Union wanted the trials to be held in Berlin, but the\u003cbr\u003e\nother three Allies insisted they be held in Nuremberg, in Bavaria, in\u003cbr\u003e\nthe American Zone of Occupation. 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