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Summary: Fast paced action
Review: Like most of Higgins' novels, the story spans a short time period. With the characters moving between many settings, the individual settings tend to be treated somewhat superficially. Also, some parts of the plot seem a bit clumsy. The story brings back Sean Dillon, Bridadier Ferguson, and others, this time dealing with the Mafia. Overall, it is an interesting story as the good guys move about disrupting the plans and businesses of the bad guys. Both sides make use of their in-house computer hackers, and the good guys don't always stay within the law.
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Summary: Flat Formula
Review: No doubt, the ingredients of a great thriller exist in Day of Reckoning. The villains are evil, the locations are exotic and the heroes are gallant. Unfortunately, all of these assets are thin and flat. The villains are dunces, unable to appreciate or even emotionally react to threats and disasters. The heroes are cool, almost bored. While revenge for a brutal murder is at stake, no real danger threaten them. It's a sleepwalk to the final page.Please understand, I am a big Higgins fan that found the Dillon/Blake partnership to be entertaining in The President's Daughter and The Whitehouse Connection. As a paperback, Day of Recknoning offers some value. I trust Jack Higgins can boost the emotion around a successful formula in future yarns.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I grew up loving Jack Higgins thanks to The Eagle has Landed and Storm Warning. A few years back, I picked up his latest and promised myself, my days of reading new offerings from Mr. Higgins were over. I forgot that promise to myself and picked up this one. I renew my pledge to cease reading Mr. Higgins new offerings.
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Summary: It's about as bad as they get
Review: I'm not sure I've ever read a book as bad as this. It's as if Higgins sketched out a brief plot in a couple of days to give his publisher a glimpse of a future novel, but ultimately forgot to flesh out the outline. I feel cheated by Higgins and his publisher. They can obviously do much better.
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Summary: Weak...Limp....Empty.....
Review: I thought this might be an interesting read, but boy was I wrong. This book reads like a bad condensed version, and thats being kind. The story unfolds at a break-neck pace, almost too fast. No thought is put into character or plot development. The characters are boring, and predictable. Honestly, I couldn't finish this book. I read the 1st 100 pages and couldn't connect with any of it. It seems like not too much effort was put into this.
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Summary: Higgins Losing His Touch!
Review: I have never missed a Jack Higgins novel. But the last couple of his books have been extremely monotonous reads. Same characters, same predictable conversations. I know I am not going to be reading his latest books more than once. But these books may still provide for exciting reading to those who are not used to his work. I hope he can come up with a better book next time around (and with different characters).
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Summary: formula script
Review: It seems Higgins followed a tried and true formula for this book . While I like his style there was really nothing original at all in this book . The dialogue was predictable the characters stereotypical and there was no realism to any of the events . As a matter of fact some of the scenes wouldn't have worked with a little realism. Manipulation makes for a bad book .
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Summary: Too many characters, not enough characterization
Review: There are more than 75 -- count 'em, 75 -- characters with speaking parts in this book. The author spends most of his time moving them from place to place. And the characters are hard to tell apart because they're all made of oak or maybe hard maple. Some of the action is okay, but that can't make up for the wooden people.
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Summary: Not That Bad ...
Review: I picked this book up on a whim, read it quickly, and enjoyed it for the most part. I was surprised by the overwhelming distaste for this book by Amazon reviewers. A few words of warning ... It is a highly simple story with no real surprises. The characters are stilted and the dialogue is indeed choppy. Even with these faults, for some reason, I found myself drawn into the story and truly enjoying the downfall of Jack Fox. Not the best book I have ever read, but definitely not the worst! If you like invincible heroes, over-the-top action, and vindictive revenge, give this one a chance.
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Summary: Wish I could give it Zero Stars
Review: This could be the worst book I've read. Jack Higgins surely did not write this book. The author did not develop any character, location or situation. The story was lame, the dialog short and clipped and there was no attention to detail ( a 25 millimeter pistol, give me a break!). You can't expect Clancy type technical detail from everyone - but let's do SOME research. Do not waste your money on this one. It would be money ill spent. If you are a Higgins fan and feel you must read this, get it from the library.
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