I realize most people actually read a book before doing a review of it, however I wanted to get the word out immediately that book nine in the series is here! err.. will be soon.

"W.E.B. Griffin first burst on the national scene with his Brotherhood of War series of the U.S. Army. In 1988 he published the last Brotherhood novel, The Aviators, yet there was always one more story he wanted to tell-and here it is. Craig Lowell, Sandy Felter, Jack Portet, Geoff Craig, Robert Bellmon, George Washington "Father" Lunsford, Master Sergeant Doubting Thomas - they're all back, with the women who love them, in the crackling new novel Special Ops.

"In 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Conog with two hundred men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and eventually South America. He failed, thanks in large part to the efforts of an intrepid band of Green Berets. Licking his wounds, he retreated to Cuba to recruit more men and try the same thing in Bolivia. He failed there, too. In fact, he died there and thus, despite his incompetence, became a glorious martyr to the cause. But who was trying to kill him, really ... and who was trying to keep him alive?

"There, Griffin has some surpises up his sleeve, and as he takes us through the twists and turns of Special Ops, he spins a story of devilish cunning and thrilling adventure," says Sir Issac Backovbük.

Reviewed by Richard