From the #1 New York Times**–bestselling author of the W. E. B. Griffin novels comes a rollicking story of love, war, and adventure.**
As the author of the electrifying W. E. B. Griffin novels of the military, police, spies, and counterspies, William E. Butterworth III has been delighting readers for decades—but he has a special treat for them now.
At the tender age of sixteen, Philip W. Williams III is expelled from boarding school for committing a prank, and on the train home naturally wonders where his life will take him now. It never enters his mind that he will become a world-class marksman and a special agent of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in postwar Germany, play a key role in the defection of a Soviet officer and then court danger as a courier for the CIA, marry an Austrian ballet dancer of ferocious mien, become a renowned bestselling novelist, and meet the love of his life on a hunting trip to Scotland.
Yet all of this, and a great deal more, awaits him, in a raucous series of adventures across Europe and the United States that will have readers laughing, cheering, and propulsively turning the pages to discover what happens next.
It is a novel that only Bill Butterworth could write—and that his millions of fans will enjoy.
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Review
“A fascinating, informative, and very funny novel by that American writing phenomenon known as William E. Butterworth III. This one will keep you wondering, is it fact or fiction?”
—Fannie Flagg, bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
“Writing as W.E.B. Griffin, Bill Butterworth has given us an unrivaled array of novels about men at war, both on famed battlefields and in shadows. This time out, his target was pure – no, make that blushingly impure – enjoyment. The result? A ripping, rollicking, very tall tale of Cold War derring-do that’s more fun than a long weekend in Vegas with your worst enemy’s credit card.”
—RALPH PETERS, bestselling author of Cain at Gettysburg and Valley of the Shadow
“The only thing funnier than a Yankee in the Deep South is a Yankee bestselling author writing about it. The Hunting Trip is hilarious.” —WINSTON GROOM, bestselling author of Forrest Gump and Better Times Than These
“A writer of true virtuosity and talent . . . Like precious few others in the book marketplace,
W. E. B. Griffin delivers as advertised.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
About the Author
William E. Butterworth III is the author of more than 150 books, most notably the W. E. B. Griffin novels―more than fifty New York Times bestsellers in the Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations series. He has been invested into the orders of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association and St. Michael of the Army Aviation Association of America, and is a life member of the U.S. Special Operations Association; Gaston-Lee Post 5660, Veterans of Foreign Wars; the American Legion, China Post #1 in Exile; the Police Chiefs Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and the State of Dela¬ware; the National Rifle Association; the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Society; and the Flat Earth Society (Pensacola, Florida, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, chapters). He is an honorary life member of the U.S. Army Otter-Caribou Association, the U.S. Army Special Forces Association, the U.S. Marine Raider Association, and the USMC Combat Cor¬respondents Association. Butterworth lives in Alabama and Argentina.