TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffin,W.E.B.
AU  - Butterworth,William E.
TI  - The assassination option: a clandestine operations novel 
T2  - Clandestine operations,
SN  - 039917124X (hardback)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - G.P. Putnam's Sons
KW  - United States
KW  - Central Intelligence Group
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Intelligence officers
KW  - Germany
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-1955
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Spy stories
KW  - Suspense fiction
N2  - James Cronley thought he had done well -- he didn't know he'd done this well. His first successful mission for the about-to-be-official new Central Intelligence Directorate has drawn all kinds of attention, some welcome, some not. On the plus side, he's now a captain; promoted to Chief, DCI, Europe; and in charge of a top secret spy operation. On the minus side, a lot of people would like to know about that operation, including not only the Soviets, but his own Pentagon, as well as a seething J. Edgar Hoover. Cronley knows that if just one thing goes wrong, he's likely to get thrown to the wolves. As if that weren't enough pressure, complications are springing up on all sides. He's discovered a surprising alliance between the former German intelligence chief and, of all things, the Mossad. A German family that Cronley never knew he had has suddenly, and suspiciously, emerged. And he's due for a rendezvous with an undercover agent against the Soviets known only as Seven K. It's when he meets Seven K that he gets the real surprise
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