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The hostage

The hostage

by William E. Butterworth III

2005DiplomatsKidnapping victimsOpen Library Staff PicksCrimes againstFiction
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The second novel in W. E. B. Griffin's new bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo investigating the death of an American diplomat in Argentina, the kidnapping of the diplomat's wife, and a scandal tying the United Nations to Iraq.

Themes & subjects

DiplomatsKidnapping victimsOpen Library Staff PicksCrimes againstFictionUnited States
First published 2005

Setting

Argentina

About the author

William E. Butterworth III
William E. Butterworth III

November 10, 1929 – February 12, 2019

William Edmund Butterworth III, better known by his pen name W. E. B. Griffin, is an American writer of military and detective fiction with 38 novels in six series published under that name. He has also published under 11 other pseudonyms and three versions of his real name (W. E. Butterworth, William E. Butterworth, and most recently William E. Butterworth III). - Wikipedia

Author

William E. Butterworth III

First published

2005

Pages

750

Read time

≈ 19h

Editions

17

Language

English

Publisher

G.P. Putnam's Sons

ISBN

9781608475544

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