To an avid, or even an occasional Griffin reader, it is obvious that his more than twenty military and police novels are all, to a degree, related. The Brotherhood of War, Men At War, and The Corps series treat military persons and their interactions with each other, the formation of the military mind set, and the moral and social codes within which they live.

All are distinguished by characters drawn through realistic dialogue; critics have noted in each series the use of arcane details (the specifics of police uniforms, the minutiae of military etiquette, the complexities of family relationships within the same military career path) to set up the reality of the novels. The Brotherhood of War series treats the lives and careers of several US Army officers, many of whom end up as colonels or generals, beginning with America's 1942 North African invasion and ending near...