The Victim [Audio Cassette]

W.E.B. Griffin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1993

A brutal Mafia slaying rocks the city of Philadelphia when the only living witness is revealed -- a wealthy debutante involved with the targeted mobster.

One of the suspects is a cop, Matt Payne, who unwittingly takes on the ultimate battle between organized crime, upper-class power. . .and his own police force.

"As real as today's headlines." --Harold Coyne

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The "victim" of the title is a drug dealer named Tony DeZego, but this book's real victim is the reader, who is dragged through a flimsy plot that's overwhelmed by tedious, irrelevant details about the Philadelphia police department's uniforms, organization, chain of command and internal politics. The story revolves around two shooting incidents. In the first, an heiress is wounded and "mafioso scumbag" DeZego killed by a professional assassin. (The reasons for this unlikely pairing never become clear.) Later, a young police officer is found dead in a gutter. These two brief bursts of action notwithstanding, Griffin cannot be lured away from his fascination with the intricacies of policedom to bother solving the crimes. A paragraph tacked on at the end indicates that DeZego's assassin was killed when he bungled a job; the mystery of the murdered police officer quietly peters out. This third volume in Griffin's Badge of Honor series is the first to appear under his own name; Men in Blue and Special Operations were published under the pseudonym John Kevin Dugan.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (July 1, 1993)
• ISBN-10: 0736624988
• ISBN-13: 978-0736624985
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 2.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,360,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

W.E.B. Griffin is the author of more than thirty epic novels in five series, all of which have been listed on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and other best-seller lists. More than forty million of his books are in print in more than ten languages, including Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and Hungarian. Mr. Griffin grew up in the suburbs of New York City and Philadelphia. He enlisted in the United States Army in 1946. After basic training, he received counter-intelligence training at Fort Holabird, Maryland. He was assigned to the Army of Occupation in Germany, and ultimately to the staff of then-Major General I.D. White, commander of the U.S. Constabulary. In 1951, Mr. Griffin was recalled to active duty for the Korean War, interrupting his education at Phillips University, Marburg an der Lahn, Germany. In Korea he earned the Combat Infantry Badge as a combat correspondent and later served as acting X Corps (Group) information officer under Lieutenant General White. On his release from active duty in 1953, Mr. Griffin was appointed Chief of the Publications Division of the U.S. Army Signal Aviation Test & Support Activity at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Mr. Griffin is a member of the Special Operations Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Army Aviation Association, and the Armor Association. He was the 1991 recipient of the Brigadier General Robert L. Dening Memorial Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association, and the August 1999 recipient of the Veterans of Foreign Wars News Media Award, presented at the 100th National Convention in Kansas City. He has been vested into the Order of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association, and the Order of St. Andrew of the U.S. Army Aviation Association, and been awarded Honorary Doctoral degrees by Norwich University, the nation's first and oldest private military college, and by Troy State University (Ala.). He was the graduation dinner speaker for the class of 1988 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has been awarded honorary membership in the Special Forces Association; the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association; the Marine Raiders Association; and the U.S. Army Otter & Caribou Association. He is the co-founder, with historian Colonel Carlo D'Este, of the William E. Colby Seminar on Intelligence, Military, and Diplomatic Affairs. Mr. Griffin's novels, known for their historical accuracy, have been praised by The Philadelphia Inquirer for their "fierce, stop-for-nothing scenes." "Nothing honors me more than a serviceman, veteran, or cop telling me he enjoys reading my books," Mr. Griffin says. Mr. Griffin divides his time between the Gulf Coast and Buenos Aires.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great!, June 2, 1999

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This review is from: The Victim (Badge of Honor) (Vol 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

Great story, suspenseful, gripping, in keeping with Griffin's tradition of unmatched storytelling. Griffin has an uncanny way of keeping me up way past when I should be going to sleep. His books all stand alone, with enough background woven into the story for each to make sense even to someone who hasn't read the previous book(s) in the series. Each book in the Badge of Honor series is a 5 star book, as is each book in The Corps series. You just can't go wrong with a W.E.B. Griffin book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Victim, December 5, 2002

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T. L. Willson "Clutch" (New Richmond, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Victim (Badge of Honor) (Vol 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

A contracted mafia hit, a murdered police officer, Young Matt Payne, Inspector Peter Wohl...W.E.B. Griffin continues to keep my interest in the Badge of Honor series. Book III seemed fast-paced enough for me. As with other installments in his series, things are never "wrapped up" with the end of the book. Everything is more along the line of "to be continued," which for Griffin fans, is what we have come to expect. On to Book IV, The Witness.

5.0 out of 5 stars all time author, September 20, 2011

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grit - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Victim (Badge of Honor) (Vol 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

I have all of WEB Griffins books and rate him along with Wilbur Smith as my all time favorite author. His sagas span several different action themes, but they are all either military, police or intelligence services. The author has residence both in Texas and Argentina and has spent a great deal of time with our military so he uses his familiarity with these settings and people to cast a very nice spell in his work. My wife also enjoys the books so I would say they are suitable for all readers.