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So, how would I rate W.E.B Griffin and “The Hostage”? A straight ZERO, regardless of the scale of reference. As you might have guessed, her supposed murder mystery also gets distracted by random nonsense, weakening both plot and characters. Look, maybe conservatives have it right, and liberals have it wrong, but good mystery fiction should leave politics out (a novel presented as explicitly political can have any amount of delusion added to it) and for heaven’s sake, have an actual plot, with actual villains, who MUST be revealed in some way, shape or form! So, all said, I will still keep listening to books from diverse authors, though, I did recently listen to Catherine Coulter and her anti-Bill Clinton tirades, which is just really sad. I don’t know how I survived, but it almost made me rethink wanting to look for diversity in reading choices. To get us there, it takes us through a meaninglessly rich hero, an extremely iconoclastic President (not in a good way) who sets up agencies left and right, extremely dysfunctional CIA agents, Fox News as the preferred viewing choice and some meandering WW II stuff.

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Well, the villain, or one of them anyway, teaches us how to make some crappy beef dish for half the last CD, and the novel ends really nonsensically, with NO plot! So, I did listen to this one towards the end, only if to search for what idiotic right wing (because that is the bent of this un-storied work of high-functioning gibberish as well) plot would be framed in the end.

At 15 CDs, I thought he would get it right somehow. Griffin was going to go down the same path, as has been my experience with these types of novels, but the $2 price was too enticing. It was the first CD, and within 5 minutes, the author with his intolerable right wing swill, which by the way was all about attacking the left wing, did away with all mystery, entertainment and good feelings. 1 By Order of the President (2004) 2 The Hostage (2006).

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To continue reading, get the full 1000-word biography in WEB Griffin Books In Order.I once stopped a Vincent Flynn Book on CD disk and heaved the whole set in the recycle bin as quickly as I could. Griffin Author Record 36709 Legal Name: Butterworth, William Edmund III. However, that wasn’t as straightforward as it sounds because a man was supposed to be 17 years old to enlist and William’s 17 th birthday was a month away. However, in 1946, when he was 16 years old, he was expelled from the school for being too much of a disruptive influence.

We first catch up with William when he is in his teens and attending Newark Preparatory School. Information about his parents, his early schooling, his hobbies… all a mystery.

Though he is such a successful author and was around for so long, very little of his early life is public knowledge. Though born near Newark, he grew up in two other major US cities – New York City, which needs no introduction, and Philadelphia, a large city of getting on for two million people, in Pennsylvania, which is the state immediately west of New Jersey. William was born in South Orange, a small town of around 16,000 residents very close to Newark, located in New Jersey, which is a state in the United States of America. For those readers interested in all things astrological, that makes him a Scorpio, which is one of the Water signs. William Edmund Butterworth III was born on the 10 th of November in 1929, which was a Sunday. The Roper Brothers and Their Magnificent Steam Automobile

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