The Hunting Trip: A Novel of Love and War

From the number 1 New York Times–bestselling writer of the W. E. B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking tale of affection, conflict, and adventure.
 
because the writer of the electrifying W. E. B. Griffin novels of the army, police, and spies and counterspies, William E. Butterworth III has been delighting readers for decades—but he has a different deal with for them now.
            on the smooth age of 16, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding institution for committing a prank, and at the teach domestic wonders the place his existence will take him now. It by no means enters his brain that he'll turn into a different agent of the U.S. military Counterintelligence Corps in postwar Germany, play a key position within the defection of a Soviet officer after which paintings for the CIA, marry a ferocious Austrian ballet dancer, develop into a popular bestselling novelist, and meet the affection of his lifestyles on a searching journey. but all of this, and lots more and plenty extra, awaits him, in a raucous sequence of adventures that might have readers giggling, cheering, and propulsively turning the pages to find what occurs next.

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Even supposing i'm thankful for what you probably did for me at the Champs-Élysées final evening, and to me later within the George V, the chilly proof are that dancers of the Corps de Ballet of the Vienna country Opera, similar to myself, easily don't get entangled with unsophisticated . . . one may well say ohne kultur barbarians . . . younger americans similar to your self. contemplate what occurred among us as ships that have handed entering into contrary instructions in the course of the evening in the course of the Atlantic Ocean, and auf Wiedersehen! ” after which she acquired out of the Cadillac and disappeared into the level door of the Palais Garnier. — fact to inform, Phil wasn’t all that stunned or disenchanted. For something, he had heard from either Angus McTavish and G. Lincoln Rutherford—and after all from Magda—what negative humans ballet dancers frequently have been. for an additional, now that he used to be approximately to turn into First Lieutenant Williams, he particularly shouldn’t be playing around with ballet dancers, even ballet dancers like Brunhilde, who ranked as probably a twelve or 13 at the one-to-ten scale vis-à-vis the keenness of sexual companions. And for a 3rd cause, he used to be going to need to cross on a delivering-classified-documents undertaking to Istanbul, Turkey, within the subsequent day or and needed to pack. He positioned Brunhilde Wienerwald out of his brain. simply over 5 weeks later, Phil picked up the funny-looking phone in his suite within the George V. “Hello? ” he stated. The calling social gathering stated, “Könnten Sie mich an Herr Williams? Hier ist Brunhilde Wienerwald von der Wiener Staatsoper. ” “Brunhilde, child! How great of you to name! ” “Where have you ever been? I’ve been attempting to get you for days. ” “Well, first i used to be in Istanbul, after which I went to Athens, after which to the Isle of Capri within the Tyrrhenian Sea. What’s in your brain, Brunhilde, child? ” “‘Baby’ ist eine sehr unglückliche Wahl der Wörter. ” “Why is ‘baby’ a very unlucky selection of phrases, Brunhilde, child? ” “Denn in nur acht Monaten ich werde noch eine sie EXPLETIVE DELETED!! EXPLETIVE DELETED!!. ” “Did you simply say you’re going to have a toddler in 8 months, Brunhilde? ” “Sind Sie taub und mehr als in einen Ewigkeitszustand hinein Sie EXPLETIVE DELETED!! EXPLETIVE DELETED!!? ” “I am neither deaf nor oversexed, Brunhilde. And please try and do not forget that you’re a girl, and girls simply don’t name gents EXPLETIVE DELETED!! EXPLETIVE DELETED!! as you simply did. ” “EXPLETIVE DELETED!! you, you EXPLETIVE DELETED!! ohne Kultur Amerikaner EXPLETIVE DELETED!!. ” “To swap the topic, Brunhilde. you're not implying that i've got a few reference to your upcoming blessed occasion? ” “You’re EXPLETIVE DELETED!! correct I am,” Brunhilde responded in German. “I’ll admit that I had a bit to do with it. Being acquainted with the statistic that notion happens just once in 11,455 instances whilst a virgin loses her pearl of significant fee, I took an opportunity in Paris with you. My EXPLETIVE DELETED!! mistake. however, you EXPLETIVE DELETED!! , you shouldn't have taken good thing about my innocence and virginal nation how you did.

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