OSS Recruits Frade, Assigns Him to Argentina. Jerked back to the Star Tour following his becoming an ace, Frade is recruited by the OSS to go to Argentina ostensibly to surreptitiously attack a fake Nazi submarine tender. Jorge, his estranged father, is the most powerful man in Argentina and the mission reeks of influence peddling by the OSS. Following a grand reunion of father and son, the Nazis put out a hit on Clete but he is warned off by his new Luftwaffe fighter pilot Peter von Wachstein who becomes a key ally and spy for the OSS. While staying with a friend of his grandfathers, Clete falls madly in lust with his host's teenage daughter Dorotea, and they soon remove her mantel of the Virgin Princess. As the sub tender plot builds, Clete arms himself with radio and ordnance gurus who assist in the plan to torpedo the sub tender via a US submarine to be led to the firing solution via flares dropped from Clete's spotter plane. Clete survives the attack and is rewarded. Victory and Honor is billed as the true story of the final days of the OSS before it was reborn as the CIA at the end of World War II. It deals primarily with the adventures of Cletis Frade, a marine pilot with dual American and Argentine citizenship and his attempts to secure the transport of anti-Hitler members of the German military from Germany to Argentina as the war wound down. It is part of series, but this is the only one I've read thus far. Perhaps as a consequence, I found the story and the characters difficult to follow at time, however, I found the Frade character very compelling and the war time secrets quite interesting. All in all, this is a very good read.
