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Summary: Not worth the day..
Review: It takes to read this sophmoric novel. Cliche'd, predictable, abrubt, summarized. Reads like cliff notes. Worst Higgins novel I've read. Please take your time with the next book Mr. Higgins
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Summary: Day of Reckoning
Review: This was the worst Jack Higgins book that I have evey read. The Sean Dillon storyline is ripe and needs to be retired. Dillon, the charming Irish rogue,is now just a pale immitation of the early books. By the way, how many times can Hannah express her disagreement with Dillon's tactics, but remain with Ferguson's team? How many times can she look at Dillon lovingly, but realize that his past is too much to overcome? How many times can she say, "Damm you Dillon?" What a "remarkable woman." Also, why all the profanity? In a 295 page book, is it necessary to use over 40 different versions of the "F word?" Higgins did not use such langugae in his early works. I found it very distracting. Since this is my last Higgins novel, I will just have to reread The Eagle has Landed.
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Summary: Good Escapist Reading - "Just Do It"
Review: I must admit that I am adicted to Higgins' Sean Dillon character and all the other regulars in this series. I especially like them because they a predictable and fairly uncomplicated. I can sit down, enjoy a good story, and not have to get my head too deep into it. This is another that fits this template. Dillon taking on the Mafia - what else? Dillon helping his friend Blake - what else? Dillon upsetting yet being admired by his co-worders in the Prime Minister's Private Army - what else? Dillon recruiting some of his former assocaites - what else? See, good predictable readiing. I like it and, if you are like me you will too.
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Summary: Disappointing read
Review: It could have been an exciting and suspenseful book but the dialogue was so contrived, the action so predictable, and there was such a total lack of descriptive narrative that it was boring. Ho hum, and we all knew the heroes would survive! Sorry Mr. Higgins, this one isn't up to your usual par.
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Summary: Sean Dillon is at his very BEST!
Review: Another action packed book by Jack Higgins featuring Sean Dillon at his BEST against the mafia. I couldn't put it down and you won't be able to either!
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Summary: George Higgins knows how tio write a good thriller
Review: Don Marco Salazzo is the CEO of the Mafia. His organization conducts business in gambling and prostitution as well as many legal enterprises. His nephew Jack Fox manages those companies that are above board. On the surface Jack seems like the All-American success story, but that serves as a façade for his international criminal activities that the Family would never sanction.Reporter Katherine Johnson has gathered information that will expose Jack as a brilliant psychopathic criminal, but he knows she is closing in on him. He orders a hit that successfully kills Katherine. However, Katherine's former husband, Blake Johnson, heads a top secret White House agency, The Basement. He obtains Katherine's tape that explains what she learned. Blake vows vengeance by tearing apart the empire until the emperor is left naked. However, Jack's connections warn him that Blake is coming for him. Jack Higgins' latest action-packed thriller triumphantly blends Puzo with Clancy. The excellent cast and mouse story line stars two powerful individuals working outside the law towards an inevitable collision. Though Blake and Jack follow the same path, Mr. Higgins leaves no doubt of who the hero is and who the villain is. Genre fans will gain much pleasure from DAY OF RECKONING. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Predictable and cliche
Review: This book was so forgettable I had to search Amazon on the names of the lead characters to find the name of the book only a few days after finishing the novel!
You see this book coming a million miles away. Higgins simply phones in the effort.
I've read other books as part of larger series and I never felt left out. This book was the exception. Unlike the Master and Commander series, or the Leaphorn/Chee mysteries, this book depends on previous books. At least that's my assumption since this book is so lame on its own. For example, you start this book with a lead character, but once we meet the series' principal characters, the first character gets third billing.
This book is NOT recommended. I gave it 2 stars because I was entertained moderately and did finish it. (If it was really bad, I would have cut bait!) The character Dillon is somewhat interesting, perhaps more so if you have interest in the IRA, Northern Ireland, and all that.
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Summary: Don't read this book
Review: The Day of Reckoning is an exemplar of a novel at its worst. Sean Dillon and his all-star cast of superhuman vigilantes hardly inspire, and infact tend to irritate.
My advice: This book is worse than the plague, so run away from it.
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Summary: Alright, so it's cliche....SO WHAT? It's exciting and fun!
Review: I really can't fault this book, and feel that other only can because they're silly nitpicking twits. What do i look for in a book...well, ...I personally think this is one of Higgins's best books in years. Lately, he has produced a real string of absolutely stunning thrillers. Right from Drink with the Devil, and up to Midnight Runner which was published in the UK in feb, and is due to be published in the US in April. All of his most recent books have been excellent. They are fast paced, exciting, with likeable characters, interesting and intelligent plots, and good settings which span the globe. This is no different. A recurring theme of his latest three books (Day of Reckoning, Edge of Danger, and now Midnight Runner) is revenge. This time the revenge is sought by Blake Johnson against the killers of his ex-wife, a mafia don whom she had been doing a jounrnalistic expose on. Johnson sets out to bring the don (Jack Fox) down, with the help of Sean Dillion and co. What follows is a truly exciting adventure which speeds along at high pace. The speed at which it switches from place to place is stunning, and the events unfold before you like a rollercoaster ride. Higgins's writing is pitch-perfect. Some writers, in their quest to write well, overwrite their stories tremendously. And others, knowing the dangers of over-writing, try desperately to avoid doing so but instead they drastically oversimplify their work so it readsa like a ten year old's. Jack Higgins gets it just right. Not overwritten, but not oversimplfied either. just perfect. A criticism of this book is his lack of characterisation of some of the major characters. Personally, i don't notice it, as i have come across them al before, and know them very well. That is a problem of series writing. You develop your characters in the early books, and as the series moves on there is very little developement left which you can do, and they run the risk of appearing 2d. However, this didn't spoil the book at all. This is an extremely high-class adventure story from a real master of modern fiction, powered by high emotion.
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