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Curtain of death : aClandestine operations novel / W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV.

ISBN: 9780399176739
ISBN: 039917673X
ISBN: 9780735212268
ISBN: 0735212260
Physical Description: 467 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, ©2016

Griffin, W. E. B.,: (author.). Butterworth, William E. (William Edmund),: (author.).

Summary:

January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded. The "incident," however, will send shock waves rippling up and down the line and have major repercussions not only for her, but for her boss, James Cronley, Chief DCI-Europe, and for everybody involved in their still-evolving enterprise. For, though the Germans may have been defeated, Cronley and his company are on the front...