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Summary: Higgins never disapoints
Review: A truly great espionage thriller by the New York times' best selling author. Mr. Higgins is in top form. He never disapoints and this new thriller shows you how he keeps you guessing until the end.
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Summary: The master is back.
Review: Another tour de force to be reckoned with. A first rate thriller by the author of The Eagle Has Landed.
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Summary: Exciting
Review: At First, I didn't think I would like this book. But I kept an open mind . This book had the best plot twists I have ever read in a Jack Higgins novel in a long time. Chavesse is no Sean Dillion but is a close second. Take time explore this book you won't be sorry.
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Summary: Good, not great
Review: Jack Higgins has certainly given us another of his high-powered action thrillers. The pace is so quick, the plot twists like a snake, the writing is taut and to the point. All good things. However, even though the characters are likeable, they are not parituclarly developed. That, I feel, is often Higgins's letdown. He gets so wrapped up in the action that he forgets to give his characters deep personalities. Instead, we just see snapshots of people who, really, could be any hero from any thriller novel. All he really does is gives his characters names and then inserts those names into the story. The characters are just there to keep the plot moving along. The problem is that practically all the people in this novel are interchangeable with those of another. For example, Chevasse shares almost exactly the same personality traits as Sean Dillon. As does Liri, who is Jack Higgins's typical lead woman. they are all the same, in all his novels. Their names and pasts just change. That said, this is still a very good book. The pace never lets up, it's a pageturner and it's quick. If you like a good action thriller and don't particulalry mind about characters, then this is the book for you. (Even if the margins on the English edition are ridiculously big.)
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Summary: Features super-spy Paul Chevasse on a high-risk mission
Review: The Keys Of Hell is an unabridged, action-packed audiobook thriller by Jack Higgins and features super-spy Paul Chevasse on a high-risk mission to find and take out a double agent in the isolated republic of Albania. But someone has set a deadly trap for him - someone who holds the "keys of hell" - and completing his mission will take far more than a cool head and cold blood. Skillfully narrated by twenty-year career British theater and radio play actor Christian Rodska, The Keys Of Hell is an tale so engrossing that listening to it makes time fly -- and leads to an eager expectation of the next New Millennium Audio edition of a Jack Higgins thriller. 4 hours, 4 cassettes.
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Summary: Easy Money for Big Jack
Review: The Keys of Hell was originally published in the 60s when Jack Higgins seemed to pump out the thrillers by the truckload under 14 different psuedonymns. According to the preamble at the start of this new edition, the publishers felt it was too good a story to languish out of print, so here it is, freshened up and available in the new millenium... There's almost nothing to like about this book. I give it half a star because Sean Dillon isn't in it and another half star for a vaguely exciting ending.
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Summary: The Keys of Shallow
Review: The Keys of Hell was very shallow when it came to charicter development. The action was good and the discriptions of events were good, but beyond that there was nothing. It seems like he's trying to just write another book like another essay for a high schooler, not putting any thought into it and just focusing on the basics. Higgins is capable of a lot better, as shown with the Flight of Eagles. Two stars for plot and discription of events, and nothing else.
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Summary: The Keys of Shallow
Review: The Keys of Hell was very shallow when it came to charicter development. The action was good and the discriptions of events were good, but beyond that there was nothing. It seems like he's trying to just write another book like another essay for a high schooler, not putting any thought into it and just focusing on the basics. Higgins is capable of a lot better, as shown with the Flight of Eagles. Two stars for plot and discription of events, and nothing else.
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Summary: Confusion
Review: The reason I titled this review "Confusion" was due to the fact that I am perplexed about how whenever I read a book from a new author, it is one of his lesser accomplishments. I know Jack Higgins is a great and successful author, but I am going to say I did not enjoy this book. It wasn't written poorly, but due to its paper-thin storyline, I wasn't impressed. The story is just a giant flashback. It begins with a group of Italians reviewing Paul Chavasse's file, and they are impressed by one of his missions. Higgins' then stretches this thin plot through 250 pages. Personally, I would've rather read the summary in Chavasse's file than have read "The Keys of Hell."
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Summary: Confusion
Review: The reason I titled this review "Confusion" was due to the fact that I am perplexed about how whenever I read a book from a new author, it is one of his lesser accomplishments. I know Jack Higgins is a great and successful author, but I am going to say I did not enjoy this book. It wasn't written poorly, but due to its paper-thin storyline, I wasn't impressed. The story is just a giant flashback. It begins with a group of Italians reviewing Paul Chavasse's file, and they are impressed by one of his missions. Higgins' then stretches this thin plot through 250 pages. Personally, I would've rather read the summary in Chavasse's file than have read "The Keys of Hell."
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