W.E.B. Griffin

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1982
  • Latest Book:
    June 2024
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About the Author

W.E.B. Griffin enlisted in the United States Army in 1946. He fought in the Korean War, which interrupted his education at Phillips University. After he was released from active duty, he was named Chief of the Publications Division of the U.S. Army Signal Aviation Test and Support Activity at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Griffin has written 45 novels in six series, with 45 million novels in print in over 10 languages including Hebrew and Japanese. His novels are known for their historical accuracy. Griffin has been awarded with honorary Doctoral degrees from Norwich University and Troy State University. He is also the co-founder of the William E. Colby Seminar on Intelligence, Military and Diplomatic Affairs. Griffin lives in the Gulf Coast and Buenos Aires.

Full Series List in Order

Badge of Honor

1 - Men in Blue (Oct-1988)
2 - Special Operations (Oct-1989)
3 - The Victim (Feb-1991)
4 - The Witness (Jan-1992)
5 - The Assassin (May-1993)
6 - The Murderers (Jan-1995)
7 - The Investigators (Jan-1998)
8 - Final Justice (Jan-2003)
9 - The Traffickers (Aug-2009)
10 - The Vigilantes (Aug-2010)
11 - The Last Witness (Aug-2013)
12 - Deadly Assets (Aug-2015)
13 - Broken Trust (Oct-2016)
14 - The Attack (Jun-2024)

Brotherhood of War

1 - The Lieutenants (Sep-1982)
2 - The Captains (Oct-1982)
3 - The Majors (Jan-1983)
4 - The Colonels (1983)
5 - The Berets (1984)
6 - The Generals (Feb-1986)
7 - The New Breed (Sep-1987)
8 - The Aviators (May-1989)
9 - Special Ops (Jan-2001)

Clandestine Operations

1 - Top Secret (Aug-2014)
2 - The Assassination Option (Jan-2015)
3 - Curtain of Death (Jan-2017)
4 - Death at Nuremberg (Jan-2018)
5 - The Enemy of My Enemy (Dec-2018)

Corps

1 - Semper Fi (Nov-1986)
2 - Call to Arms (Sep-1987)
3 - Counterattack (Jan-1990)
4 - Battleground (Jan-1991)
5 - Line Of Fire (Jan-1992)
6 - Close Combat (Jan-1993)
7 - Behind the Lines (Jan-1996)
8 - In Danger's Path (Jan-1999)
9 - Under Fire (Jan-2002)
10 - Retreat, Hell! (Jan-2004)

Honor Bound

1 - Honor Bound (Jan-1994)
2 - Blood and Honor (Jan-1997)
3 - Secret Honor (Jan-2000)
4 - Death and Honor (Jun-2008)
5 - The Honor of Spies (Jan-2010)
6 - Victory and Honor (Aug-2011)
7 - Empire and Honor (Jan-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

Presidential Agent

1 - By Order of the President (Dec-2004)
2 - The Hostage (Jan-2006)
3 - The Hunters (Jan-2007)
4 - The Shooters (Jan-2008)
5 - Black Ops (Dec-2008)
6 - The Outlaws (Jan-2011)
7 - Covert Warriors (Dec-2011)
8 - Hazardous Duty (Jan-2014)

W.E.B. Griffin's Men at War

5 - The Saboteurs (Jun-2006)
6 - The Double Agents (Jul-2007)
7 - The Spymasters (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • The Lieutenants

    Brotherhood of War - 1

    They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they answered the call gladly. War. It was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boy...

  • The Captains

    Brotherhood of War - 2

    It was more than an incident. It was a deadly assault across the 38th parallel. It was the Korean War. In the fear and frenzy of battle, those who had served with heroism before were called again by America to man the trenches and sandbag bunkers. Fr...

  • The Majors

    Brotherhood of War - 3

    Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back...

  • The Colonels

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    Brotherhood of War - 4

    They were the professionals, the men who had been toughened by combat in the mine-laden fields of Europe, in Korea, in Greece, in Indochina. Now, in the twilight of a dying decade, they must return to the States to forge a new type of American soldie...

  • The Berets

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    Brotherhood of War - 5

    They were the chosen ones--and the ones who chose to be the best. Never before had the United States given so select a group of fighting men such punishing preparation. Now they were heading for their ultimate test of skill and nerve and sacrifice, i...

  • The Generals

    Brotherhood of War - 6

    Their bold decisions changed the outcome of battles ~ and often the fate of a country. The Generals earned their stars in Normandy's spectacular landing, in grueling South Pacific campaigns, on Korea's icy slopes and in the wastelands of Vietnam. It ...

  • Semper Fi

    Corps - 1

    THE PROUDEST OF THE PROUD. THE MARINES. From Shanghai to Wake Island, the Corps was America's first line of defense as the winds of war exploded into the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, the bestselling author of the acclaimed BROTH...

  • Call to Arms

    Corps - 2

    The attack on Pearl Harbor swept America into the raging heart of the war. The stormy South Pacific presented a daring new challenge, and the men of the Corps were ready to fight. An elite fraternity united by a glorious tradition of courage and hono...

  • The New Breed

    Brotherhood of War - 7

    From the blistering jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. It was a different kind of war. But the courage and skill of these young fighting men were an American tradition. Like the...



  • Men in Blue

    Badge of Honor - 1

    Griffin's bestselling series, The Corps and Brotherhood of War, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama, and action. Here are the brave men and women...

  • The Aviators

    Brotherhood of War - 8

    It is 1964. The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics, and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the United States Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division, a force c...

  • Special Operations

    Badge of Honor - 2

    In this exciting new series, W.E.B. Griffin reveals a city police force with all the authentic detail and drama that made THE CORPS and BROTHERHOOD OF WAR phenomenal bestsellers. Here is an explosive novel of the men and women behind the badge -- a u...

  • Counterattack

    Corps - 3

    From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to America's first bold counterstrike against the Japanese on the beaches of Guadalcanal, this compelling novel takes readers to the front lines of victory and defeat....

  • Battleground

    Corps - 4

    Battleground - Book IV - continues the saga of The Corps with the story of one of the epic conflicts of the Pacific, the bloody months spanning Midway and Guadalcanal. From aviators to Raiders, officers to dog soldiers, no quarter is asked, and none ...

  • The Victim

    Badge of Honor - 3

    A brutal Mafia slaying rocks the city of Philadelphia when the only living witness is revealed - a wealthy debutante involved with the targeted mobster. One of the suspects is a cop, Matt Payne, unwittingly takes on the ultimate battle between organi...

  • Line Of Fire

    Corps - 5

    Line of Fire brings to life a desperate mission of World War II that captures the drama and courage of the men who fought it. Two Marines, reporting on Japanese air activity, are trapped on a small Coastwatcher island. A special rescue team is assemb...

  • The Witness

    Badge of Honor - 4

    The robbery ended in murder, the killers claimed to be terrorists, and the only cooperative witness feared for his life. Police officer Matt Payne knew the dangers of his profession - but never thought he would be the one needing protection!...

  • Close Combat

    Corps - 6

    CLOSE COMBAT is W.E.B. Griffin's epic novel of World War II--a powerful, dramatic tribute to the brave men and women who lived it ...The captain who led his squadron into the fiercest air battles of the Pacific. The correspondent who learned more abo...

  • The Assassin

    Badge of Honor - 5

    A political assassin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed bomb threat. And worse yet, the police aren't sure they can trust their own people. In a few short days, the corruption of one cop-and the ...



  • Honor Bound

    Honor Bound - 1

    October 1942. At a secret rendezvous point off the coast of neutral Argentina, a small merchant ship delivers supplies to Nazi submarines and raiders. The OSS is determined to sabotage the operation by any means necessary. But one of the key saboteur...

  • The Murderers

    Badge of Honor - 6

    A vice cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner and his wife are gunned down during a robbery. And in a mansion, a young woman dies of a heroine overdose. The crimes seem unconnected. But these deaths are about to trigger a convergence of corrupti...

  • Behind the Lines

    Corps - 7

    BEHIND THE LINES is W.E.B. Griffin's powerful novel of World War II -- and the courage, patriotism, and sacrifice of those who fought it. By 1942, the Japanese have routed the outnumbered American forces and conquered the Philippines. But deep in the...

  • Blood and Honor

    Honor Bound - 2

    It is April 1943 in Argentina, where World War II rages in clandestine battles both sides deny - but neither side can afford to lose. Where a Nazi plot to overthrow the government in Buenos Aires may change the face of the war. And where three Americ...

  • The Investigators

    Badge of Honor - 7

    With more than 17 million copies of his novels in print W.E.B. Griffin presents his most riveting series of the men and women behind the badge -- united by a code of courage, loyalty, and trust. A brutal crime. A group of urban terrorists. An invest...

  • In Danger's Path

    Corps - 8

    In Griffin's explosive new 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 thei...

  • Secret Honor

    Honor Bound - 3

    It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. While Douglas MacArthur chomps at the bit, intent on surging across the 38th parallel, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering works despera...

  • Special Ops

    Brotherhood of War - 9

    W.E.B. Griffin returns to the series that launched his phenomenal career-- in an explosive new novel that pits a team of Special Forces warriors against the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara....

  • Under Fire

    Corps - 9

    After the epic struggle of World War II, WEB. Griffin's bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare -- with new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrior -- on the battlefields of Korea... In 1950, Capta...

  • Final Justice

    Badge of Honor - 8

    Detective Matt Payne-newly promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Homicide-finds himself in the middle of three major assignments. The first, a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant, seems simple, but rapidly becomes complicated. The second begins c...



  • Retreat, Hell!

    Corps - 10

    It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. The bit in his teeth, Douglas MacArthur is intent on surging across the 38th parallel toward the Yalu River, where he is certain no Chin...

  • By Order of the President

    Presidential Agent - 1

    W.E.B. Griffin launches an all-new series of action-packed military novels set against the backdrop of the modern war against terror... When a Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the security agencies of the Unit...

  • The Hostage

    Presidential Agent - 2

    By Order of the President, the first novel in Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike. 'True virtuosity,' praised the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. 'Cutting-edge,' agreed Publishers Weekly. 'Th...

  • The Saboteurs

    W.E.B. Griffin's Men at War - 5

    Griffin fans have waited years for the return of his rousing stories of the OSS, and now, at last, aided and abetted by his son, William E. Butterworth IV, Griffin has brought back his iconoclastic heroes in a brand-new adventure. The Battle of t...

  • The Hunters

    Presidential Agent - 3

    The Hunters picks up right where The Hostage left off. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have lead Castillo and his team to an estancia in Uruguay, where, to his shock, the man they are see...

  • The Double Agents

    W.E.B. Griffin's Men at War - 6

    Critics and fans alike welcomed the return of the Men at War series with The Saboteurs. Now Canidy, Fulmar, and colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services face an even greater task-to convince Hitler and the Axis powers that the invasion of the E...

  • The Shooters

    Presidential Agent - 4

    Now, still in Argentina tying up loose ends from his investigation into the UN oil-for-food scandal, Castillo is startled when a young man is marched into his office at gunpoint, caught trying to sneak through the fence. It turns out he's an American...

  • Death and Honor

    Honor Bound - 4

    The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and in Dea...

  • Black Ops

    Presidential Agent - 5

    W.E.B. Griffin's explosive Presidential Agent novels have gained worldwide acclaim for "leaving satisfied thriller readers hankering for more" (Publishers Weekly). Now, in his latest #1 New York Times bestseller, the Russian bear is stirring after ...

  • The Traffickers

    Badge of Honor - 9

    Griffin's popular Badge of Honor police series returns, with a story of murder and lawlessness as compelling as today's headlines. J ust as with his remarkable military novels, millions of readers have been captured by the rich characters and vivi...



  • The Honor of Spies

    Honor Bound - 5

    W.E.B. Griffin returns to his Honor Bound series set in the shadows of World War II espionage in South America... August 1943: In his short time as a spy with the Office of Strategic Services, young Cletus Frade has faced many unlikely situations,...

  • The Vigilantes

    Badge of Honor - 10

    There's a sudden spike in murders -- or "targeted killings" -- in Philadelphia. But no one seems to mind much because those being assassinated are all fugitives with histories of heinous sex crimes against women and children. Making matters worse for...

  • The Outlaws

    Presidential Agent - 6

    The #1 New York Times-bestselling series returns-and the stakes have never been higher. Charlie Castillo's secret unit has been disbanded-but that doesn't mean he's out of business. As experience has painfully shown him, there are many things the ...

  • Victory and Honor

    Honor Bound - 6

    Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political-the very survi...

  • Covert Warriors

    Presidential Agent - 7

    There's an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat-but then why are the Chinese helping to train its sp...

  • The Spymasters

    W.E.B. Griffin's Men at War - 7

    Summer 1943. Two of the Allies’ most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk -- Operation Overlord’s invasion of France, and the Manhattan Project’s race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bil...

  • Empire and Honor

    Honor Bound - 7

    October 1945: The Germans and Japanese have surrendered. For Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, it should be time to pack up, but they have far more important things to do. In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret...

  • The Last Witness

    Badge of Honor - 11

    For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine: a connection between the Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex ...

  • Hazardous Duty

    Presidential Agent - 8

    The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom...

  • Top Secret

    Clandestine Operations - 1

    A brand-new series about the Cold War -- and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually ...



  • The Assassination Option

    Clandestine Operations - 2

    From the #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the dramatic second adventure in the brand-new Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency -- and a new breed of warrior. I...

  • Deadly Assets

    Badge of Honor - 12

    In Philadelphia -- suffering among the country’s highest murder rates -- the tension between the Philadelphia Police Department and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortl...

  • Broken Trust

    Badge of Honor - 13

    The dramatic New York Times-bestselling adventure in W.E.B. Griffin’s Badge of Honor series about the Philadelphia police force. Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think n...

  • Curtain of Death

    Clandestine Operations - 3

    From #1 New York Times-bestselling author W. E. B. Griffin comes the dramatic third novel in the Clandestine Operations series about the Cold War, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency -- and a new breed of warrior. January 1946: Two WACs lea...

  • Death at Nuremberg

    Clandestine Operations - 4

    Assigned to the Nuremberg war trials, special agent James Cronley, Jr., finds himself fighting several wars at once, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Cold War. When Jim Cr...

  • The Enemy of My Enemy

    Clandestine Operations - 5

    Special agent James Cronley, Jr., finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War. A month ago, Cronley managed to c...

  • The Attack

    Badge of Honor - 14

    A dead girl, a wealthy family, and indications of drug use. It's a toxic mix that leads Philadelphia detective Matt Payne deep into an unexpected maelstrom of deceit and madness in the latest entry in the New York Times-bestselling Badge of Honor ser...

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W.E.B. Griffin has published 56 books.

W.E.B. Griffin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Attack, was published in June 2024.

The first book by W.E.B. Griffin, The Lieutenants, was published in September 1982.

Yes. W.E.B. Griffin has 5 series.
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