Slightly better than his recent books, it's hard to even justify giving this three stars, it's firmly in 2.5 territory.This novel begins with the ending (which happens to be the part containing the most action, and interest). It then steadily proceeds downhill with recounting of past events leadi...
Here’s another fine thriller from Jack Higgins, and at 80 years of age!This one's structured differently than most. The first third of the book’s action reveals the end game: a fast paced shoot 'em up set of assassination attempts aimed at Ferguson and several of his key people. At this point you...
I have not read a Jack Higgins book since "The Eagle Has Landed" and I have never read any of the Sean Dillon series. Having finished this I can confidently say I won't be reading any more of either. This type of "heavy on the hardware" adventure thriller is not my cup of tea. The plot is Ok, but...
If you're addicted to Higgins and the exploits of Dillon from way back, you'll probably like this one too. Sadly I find myself growing a little weary of the formula and spreading out my intake over a couple years at a time. It was fun to step back into Dillon's world again for a little while, b...
This novel is number 6 in the Dillon series and is basically a kidnapping & ransom story with the details jiggled a little.The illegitimate daughter of the President of the United States is kidnapped by Israeli hardliners in an attempt to blackmail him into signing off on the wholesale attack of ...
#3 in the Liam Devlin series. Devlin, former IRA gunman, has retired to the life of University English professor. He is called out of retirement to help catch a Cuchulain, a Russian trained terrorist. He hasn't been identified from the photos that British Intelligence has and Devlin is the only o...
I think it’s a sign of Jack Higgins’s talent for storytelling that I blew through this book in three sittings. I’ve read several of his books over the last 20 years, but I hadn’t read this one yet. It tells the story of a former British commando who goes back to a small Greek island 17 years afte...
This is a short, uninspired novel that feels like it was rushed out in order to fulfill a book contract or something. Either that, or Higgins is running out of ideas. Day of Reckoning is entertaining enough to be a passable read, but there's hardly a description or moment of subtle characteriza...
A hugely-entertaining WW2 yarn serving as a clever "remix" of classic Higgins themes (e.g. cheeky Irish rogues and celebrity impersonations). Jersey, 1944: the German occupying force is startled to receive a visit from none other than Field Marshal Rommel, tasked by Hitler with overseeing the Wes...
The real problem with Edge of Danger is that if you’ve read other Sean Dillon books you can probably see what’s coming. The novel starts well, introducing new characters (Ferguson’s cousin and an entire family of villains, the noble and millionaire Rashids) as well as bringing back some familiar ...
Jack Higgins has always been one of my favorite authors. I found The Eagle Has Landed to be one of the best I've read, and still have this in my collection. To Catch A King was a book I found in a thrift store nearly 20 years ago, and finally got around to reading it. The premise takes place when...
Jack Higgins still has the touch. This is an absorbing, fast-paced thriller in the best sense of the word. The plot is current, and quite believable. Once again, ex-IRA terrorist Sean Dillon is teamed with Scotland Yard DCI Hannah Bernstein and her boss, Brigadier Charles Ferguson. He runs an eli...
#4 in the Liam Devlin series. This novel is a sequel to The Eagle Has Landed (1975), a 1943 plot by Heinrich Himmler to kidnap (or kill) Winston Churchill. The plot was foiled and Irish gunman Liam Devlin was wounded and escaped, eventually to Lisbon, while 13 of 14 German Paratroopers were kille...
1969 short Brit thriller a little tame by modern standards..."Dying" was our introduction to prolific author Jack Higgins, a native Irishman heavily influenced by Britain's role in WW-II. In this post-war "thriller", British intelligence agent Paul Chavasse is assigned a case involving a body dis...
Jack Higgins tells the amazing story of Max and Harry Kelso, identical twin brothers of German-American descent. In World War I, their father, Jack Kelso, flew for the Royal British Flying Corps. He fell in love with his German nurse, Baroness Elsa Von Halder, while hospitalized after his plane...
Luciano's Luck by Jack Higgins is very short, only two audio tape cassettes. It was a pleasant surprise. Since I had already read some reviews about the fiction in this historical fiction story, I did a little bit of research on this short chapter of history prior to listening to the cassettes. T...
A short adventure novel set in the Amazon/Brazil in the 1930's-early 40's era. The main characters are involved in a flying business, ferrying mail & cargo. People who populate the outposts at the edge of civilization fill out the cast of players. Fatal skirmishes between the native population (...
(Note that I only read to page 62. I stopped because life is too short to read books that annoy me. If someone believes these problems stop later in the book, then by all means correct me.)This is the second political/military thriller I've read, written by a long-running best-selling author, tha...
Dark Justice, while not one of the best Sean Dillon adventures, is a worthy entry in the series. This time a British-born Muslim assassin tries to kill the American President and the aftermath sweeps Dillon and his allies into a battle with a Russian oil billionaire, a growing Muslim terrorist um...
In all seriousness, this is without doubt, the BEST 2 STAR BOOK that I've ever read. I know, I know... on its face that sounds confusing and maybe even oxymoronical and may lead to a bit of head scratching or possibly even a mild rash. For that I'm truly sorry, but please slap some calamine l...
Picking up where Higgins' Dark Justice left off, Sean Dillon and colleagues seek revenge on the Russian agents responsible for murdering their colleague. The Russians themselves, however, are not too happy with Dillon for killing their man, billionaire and former KGB official Josef Belov. With th...
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This is a well written if improbable thriller set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. In the early 1970s, disgraced former Army officer Simon Vaughn is sprung by British Intelligence from a Greek prison where he is serving time for gun-running. However in exchange he has to help them retriev...
This was such a well written book- you didn't even notice all of the description that Jack Higgins planted into your mind while reading it, all you saw were the vivid pictures of every event and the wonderfully developed main characters. I was hanging on to Higgins's every word from the beginning...
I'm a fan of Sean Dillon, who's rather a lot like James Bond – if James Bond had a history of working for the IRA and selling his services as a mercenary. He's my kind of anti-hero: a redeemed villain who's smart, competent, ruthless and charming, always a witty remark on his tongue. Having said ...
Jack Higgins is a name that is often associated with fast paced and highly engrossing political and espionage thrillers featuring some of the noblest of heroes ever to adorn the thriller genre. Jack Higgins is the pseudonym of ‘Harry Patterson’, a prolific British writer with more than 80 novels,...
I enjoy a good WWII thriller. I grew up on Alistair MacLean gems like The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare. One of my favorite novels in this genre is Jack Higgins The Eagle Has Landed, the classic story of a Nazi attempt to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.In Sheba, Higgins ...
The Jack Higgins character Paul Chavasse appears in several novels and is essentially a James Bond-style action hero. In this one, he has various cut-throat adventures in eastern Italy and the swamplands of Albania while trying to help a beautiful agent in her quest to recover a priceless religio...
This book is the 7th in the Sean Dillon series and I can say having read the Liam Devlin books and all of the prior Sean Dillon books that the Irish Rogue drama is starting to get stale.The story line in this arc at least has evolved to include UK-USA coorporation, more so than the last, however ...
My usual light reading brought me in close contact with Jack Higgins. An author I did not heard before, but learned pretty fast that he is a master of thrillers. This particular novel is a spy thriller set in the late 70s Europe, in the middle of Cold War. It brought me back some memories from my...
ebook LibraryHarry Manning, a freebooter with a past he doesn't like to talk about, runs a charter boat in the Bahamas. Also, he boozes. When his sweetheart leaves him by dying, Harry can find no relief. Except for the thought of revenge. And because he is Harry, he sets out to settle the score. ...
I've read some great books by Jack Higgins, others that were quite reasonable, but not worth adding to my permanent library. This was the first time I've read one that was frankly poor. So OK, if you just read and never think about how likely it is, you might still like it, but really...SPOILER A...
A rousing, globe-trotting adventure--the kind of novel in which the hero is a world-weary war vet named Jack Savage and the love interest is a scathing nineteen-year-old beauty with a penchant for provocative clothing. That being said, this isn't nearly as lowbrow as one might suspect. NIGHT JU...
Oliver Shaw is the main character in this coming of age novel. This character, Oliver, appears to be based on Harry Patterson (Jack Higgins) himself, as they share a similar past and Oliver's path from Army to teaching to novelist roughly follows the trajectory of the path taken by the writer him...
The pedestrian paperback cover might have put me off until I opened it up, but chancing across this unassuming little epic has turned out to be one of the best choices I've made in a while, where books are concerned. In fact, this is one of the best books I've read all year. The characters are so...