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By W. E. B. Griffin, William Edmund Butterworth

W. E. B. Griffin's iconoclastic OSS heroes face a historical problem within the brand-new quantity of the recent York Times-bestselling sequence. Critics and enthusiasts alike welcomed the go back of the lads at battle sequence with The Saboteurs. Now Canidy, Fulmar, and associates within the place of work of Strategic providers face a good larger task-to persuade Hitler and the Axis powers that the invasion of the eu continent will happen at any place yet at the shorelines of Nazi-occupied France. "Wild invoice" Donovan's males have numerous strategies in brain, yet the various humans they need to use are usually not the main reliable-are, in truth, probably spying for either sides-so the deceptions require layer upon layer of intrigue, and all it's going to take is one slip to ship the whole lot tumbling down like a home of playing cards. Are the OSS brokers as much as it? They definitely imagine so. after which the physique is located floating off the coast of Spain. . . . crammed to the brim with motion and personality, The Double brokers is impossible to resist storytelling from an army grasp.

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I will keep an eye on the Ultra messages”—he gestured at the wire baskets of decrypted enemy message traffic; Ultra was the code name for the Allies’ supersecret breaking of the German cipher machine, Enigma—“for any mention of this. ” FDR would not reveal where he got the information because both men knew that Marshall would not be happy with this meeting between them. The way it was supposed to work was that Donovan reported to Marshall and Marshall reported to the President. That was chain of command and how such intel was supposed to reach Roosevelt.

The two were meeting in private in the commander’s small office, just two hatches down from the control room. The ninety-two-meter-long Agosta-class sub, submerged to a depth of ninety meters and cruising under battery power at a speed of eight nautical miles an hour, was en route to Algiers, Algeria, from the northwestern tip of Sicily. The executive officer had the helm for this leg, the last on what for the Casabianca promised to become a regular route for covert missions in the Mediterranean Sea.

That was to say, the intel tended first to serve to promote the respective branches. If, for example, ONI overstated the number of, say, German submarines, then the Navy brass could use that intelligence to justify its demands for more funds for sailors and ships to hunt down those U-boats. ) Likewise, if MID stated that it had found significantly more Axis troops amassing toward an Allied border than was previously thought, Army brass could argue that ground and/or air forces needed the money more than did the swabbies.

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