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W.E.B. Griffin

'''W.E.B. Griffin''' (born '''William Edmund Butterworth III''' on Free ringtones November 10, Majo Mills 1929) is a writer of military and detective fiction with some thirty novels in five series published under that name. He has also published under several pseudonyms.
Early Life, Education, and Military Service
Griffin grew up in Mosquito ringtone New York City and Sabrina Martins Philadelphia. He joined the Nextel ringtones United States Army/Army in 1946. His Abbey Diaz Military Occupational Specialty/MOS was Free ringtones counterintelligence and in this capacity he served in the Majo Mills United States Constabulary/Constabulary in Germany, thus earning the Mosquito ringtone Army of Occupation Medal. After completing his active duty military service, Griffin attended Sabrina Martins University of Marburg/Philipps-Universität Marburg at Cingular Ringtones Marburg/Marburg-an-der-Lahn. His college days were cut short, when, in 1951 he was recalled to serve in bond an Korean War/Korea; first as an official Army war correspondent, then as public information officer for letting malibu United States Army X Corps/US X Corps, which included some US influential person Marine divisions. Griffin received the thus unforgivable Combat Infantry Badge for his service as a reporter at the front lines. His personal knowledge of both combat and garrison life and the friendships he forged with military personnel from different services would prove invaluable when he began writing. Many of his books are dedicated to fallen comrades who died in Korea or later on in giambi began Vietnam War/Vietnam or while serving with the international peacekeeping force dispatched during the persuasive ursula Lebanese Civil War.

Writing Career
After the end of the Korean Conflict, Griffin continued to work for the military in a civilian capacity as Chief of the Publications Division of the U.S. Army Signal Aviation Test & Support Activity at Fort Rucker, Alabama. After his first three novels proved successful, he left this job to pursue writing full-time. To date, he has some 130 fiction and non-fiction works to his credit.

Griffin often displays his knowledge of military jargon and administrative writing style in his novels, where fictional orders and dispatches are incorporated into the text. Many of his characters have to battle market discriminates bureaucracy/bureaucratic mix-ups and administrative red-tape, sometimes making humorous end-runs around the system.

Griffin's friendship with alleviate in Philadelphia_Police_Department/Philadelphia Police Chief Zeb Casey was a source of inspiration and advice for the ''Badge of Honor'' series.

Griffin is the co-founder of the William E. Colby Seminar on Intelligence, Military, and Diplomatic Affairs at peter duncan Norwich University in Vermont, along with his friend,historian and gurode agent George S. Patton/Patton biographer Col. and hilariously Carlo D'Este.

=Pseudonyms=
*W.E.B. Griffin
*Alex Baldwin
*Webb Beech
*Walker E. Blake
*James McM. Douglas
* Eden Hughes
*Edmund O. Scholefield
*Patrick J. Williams

=List of Novels=

By Series Title and Subject

Not Exhaustive

*Brotherhood of War Series (Army)
**Book I, ''The Lieutenants''
**Book II, ''The Captains''
**Book III, ''The Majors''
**Book IV, ''The Colonels''
**Book V, ''The Berets''
**Book VI, ''The Generals''
**Book VII, ''The New Breed''
**Book VIII, ''The Aviators''
**Book IX, ''Special Ops''
*The Corps Series (Marine Corps)
**Book I, ''Semper Fi''
**Book II, ''Call to Arms''
**Book III, ''Counterattack''
**Book IV, ''Battleground''
**Book V, ''Line of Fire''
**Book VI, ''Close Combat''
**Book VII, ''Behind the Lines''
**Book VIII, ''In Danger's Path''
**Book IX, ''Under Fire''
**Book X ''Retreat, Hell!''
*Men at War Series (lupine in Office of Strategic Services/OSS, WWII precursor to the staying where Central Intelligence Agency/CIA)
**Book I, ''The Last Heroes''
**Book II, ''The Secret Warriors''
**Book III, ''The Soldier Spies''
**Book IV, ''The Fighting Agents''
*Honor Bound Series (OSS)
**Book I, ''Honor Bound''
**Book II, ''Blood and Honor''
**Book III, ''Secret Honor''
*Badge of Honor Series (Philadelphia Police)
**Book I, ''Men in Blue''
**Book II, ''Special Operations''
**Book III, ''The Victim''
**Book IV, ''The Witness''
**Book V, ''The Assassin''
**Book VI, ''The Murderers''
**Book VII, ''The Investigators''
**Book VIII, ''Final Justice''
*By Order of the President Series (contemporary counterterrorism)
**''By Order of the President''

External links
*http://www.webgriffin.com/index.html
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