In Danger's Path
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- USD 6.99
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- USD 6.99
Publisher Description
“Griffin is a storyteller in the grand tradition, probably the best man around for describing the military community.”—Tom Clancy, bestselling author of the Jack Ryan series
In this explosive Corps novel, FDR puts Brigadier General Fleming Pickering in charge of the OSS's Pacific operations. Immediately, he is faced with two urgent missions in the Gobi Desert: rescue a band of former American servicemen and their dependents from the Japanese, and set up a weather station to help direct aerial attacks against Japan.
Called to duty are many of the Marines Pickering has come to trust during the war. But one comes forth whom he doesn't expect...a certain scapegrace pilot named Malcolm—his son. Together, they will venture into terra incognita—and with luck they may come out alive...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The gung-ho Marines familiar to readers of Griffin's seven Corps novels (Behind the Lines, etc.) return for an eighth adventure--and not their best. Young Marine officers and enlisted men with high morale and low morals such as Ed Banning, Ken McCoy and Ernie Zimmerman are perfect for a secret (but remarkably improbable) OSS operation behind enemy lines in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia in 1943. Their mission: to establish a clandestine weather station and rescue a wayward group of Americans who fled China after the Japanese invasion in 1941 and have been lost in Mongolia for nearly two years. While the plot teases with a promise of suspense in an exotic and forbidding locale, the reality is that not a shot is fired, not a cliffhanger is encountered and three-fourths of the narrative is set safely back in the States, where the characters spend most of their time drinking, womanizing, disobeying orders and wringing their hands over how they can rejoin the war. Under the leadership of fatherly Brigadier General Fleming Pickering, a kind of Marine den daddy, they do return, although the result is anticlimactic. Numerous side plots provide color and historical perspective, but overwrought dialogue, flat narrative and soap-operatic storytelling leave this lengthy tale without snap.
