Death and Honor (Honor Bound)

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This is a very difficult review, The Honor Bound series is possibly my favorite WEB Griffin series, comparable to the first few Corp books. I enjoyed reading this book, but... Well, the spark has gone, the excitement and dashing characters have dulled and become cardboard. The plot is not tight, it wanders looking for direction, and logic as left the room. Also the vivid detail of locations and atmosphere is completely absent.

Logically, the idea of a junior officer casually being given the great military secret of the war the Manhattan Project, is so ludicrous so wreck the believability in the story. Added to the impossible secret meeting with the president in hotel rooms, being palls with Howard Hughes, getting away with defying the orders of the President and OSS Chief's at will without ramifications, it's just getting silly at that point.

Also this "Life Styles of the Rich and Famous", plot element that Griffin uses in EVERY book is getting tired. Its not so bad as His new Presidential Agent series, which pushes believability off a cliff.

This book is not terrible, its not even just fair, its good, just not GREAT, and great is what I am used to from Mr. Griffin.

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Death and Honor (Honor Bound)

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This book, which Griffin (William E. Butterworth III's nom de plume) writes with his son, is better than some of their other joint efforts, but still not up to the level we have come to expect in Griffin's older books.

The proof reading has been improved, which had become a problem in some of his more recent novels.

I would probably give five stars to any other author for this book, but I tend to hold Griffin to a higher standard, since we have all seen the top quality he can turn out when he puts his mind to it.

It makes for a fun read, but, unlike some of his other books, you can put this one down and then pick it up again later. You are not pulled into the action with the desire to just read one more page before you set it down for the evening.

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