Honor Bound

Griffin has written 49 books since 1982, that’s about 1 ½ books per year. Very prolific, and a friend suggested I try him out. He has six different series of books, and I chose one from his “Honor Bound” series of six books, starting with the first one, with the same title, written in 1994, so just about halfway through his career. All of his books are apparently war- or military-related, and this one is from WWII. It starts on Guadalcanal and quickly moves to South America where the intrigue has to do with Argentina as a neutral power which is covertly refueling Nazi subs, the conflict between Argentina and Brazil, and the role of the U.S. which needs to shut down the refueling operation without overtly violating Argentina’s neutrality. A flyboy hero in Guadalcanal just happens to be the estranged son of Argentina’s military leaders, and the U.S. sent him to see what influence he might have on his father, a friend of Juan Peron, who was in the process of organizing an overthrow of the current government. The plot was okay, but the book felt very commercial. It did not grab my attention, so I gave up on it about 1/3 of the way through. It does not get my recommendation unless you are a diehard WWII guy.