This is book 1 of the "Men at War" series.

This note contains spoilers for the book.

Published as by "Alex Baldwin"—and with a cover quote from Griffin! That quote identifies Griffin as "Author of the Bestselling Brotherhood of War Series", so I'm a bit confused as to why this was published as "Baldwin". I had previously thought that when Griffin finally hit the big-time he started publishing everything under that name. These have later been published as by Griffin, so I'm sure my attribution isn't just wrong. This is from a different publisher, that might be part of it.

I actually found these before the Brotherhood of War books, I stumbled on them at Uncle Edgar's as I recall.

Has all the Griffin hallmarks—rich people, young lust, airplanes. Seems a bit disjointed, but then he only really held it together once, for about 5 books of the Brotherhood of War series; everything else has been kind of disjointed too.

This is about the relatively early days of the OSS, mostly.