W E B Griffin

W. E. B. Griffin, born William Edmund Butterworth III, was an American author renowned for his military and detective fiction, having published 59 novels in seven series under his pen name. He wrote or co-wrote more than 160 books, with 21 co-authored with his son, William E. Butterworth IV, and also published under 11 other pseudonyms. Griffin died on February 12, 2019, at the age of 89 in Daphne, Alabama.