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Summary: The worst Jack Higgings ever!!!
Review: This has got to be the worst ever Higgins book. Though the author has hit past home runs (the Eagle has landed), this is a really terrible effort. He creates potentially interesting characters, only to kill them off with a sentence pages later. He sets up poitential conflicts (the leading bad guy is given Hitler's diary to safekeep) only to never make it a significant part of the plot--seems that all the Baron got was billions to spend on his own companies! He even sets up potential surprises (Dillon hiding a gun against the moment when the nasties surprise him) only for it never to be used. Higgins, I suspect, wrote this book only after a martini or two. DON'T BUY IT!!!!!
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Summary: Aptly named - especially the 'Bad' part
Review: This has to be one of the worst books I've read in recent history. I was new to Higgins but figured, how could a guy that's written 35 novels be that bad?Oh, how wrong I was. I should have known when Higgins' dust-jacket bio described him as being a multi-millionaire. Who puts that in their bio? Things got worse from there. The plot jumped from WWII to Saddam-era Baghdad to current times with alacrity. A major plot twist is revealed in the span of a page. It's done so quickly that it seems like a convenient way for Higgins, his editor or the publishing company to avoid a whole messy chapter explaining what could have been one of the more exciting parts of the book. The final 'battle' is over so quickly that the reader is left wondering what the heck just happened. And so much of the story relies on amazing coincidences, exceptionally good timing and plain old luck, that it wears thin in short order. I have one thing to say to Higgins' publishing house: BAD company! BAD! You're a naughty company! Do NOT publish any more of this drivel.
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Summary: Action-packed Company
Review: This is a first-rate novel by Jack Higgins. It starts out with the funeral of Kate Rashid. Also with the introducing of new villians such as the Baron and Rossi. Also with the usually heroic Sean Dillion which this time in this book. We receive a deeper insight into the human killing maching. Also Ferguson gives a few surprises. If you have been disappointment in the past by his novels. This book will more than make it up.
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Summary: Did Anyone Care About Any Of These Characters?
Review: This is the first Jack Higgins' book I've ever read, and I regret that I've even read it at all. What a waste of my time! I almost couldn't and didn't want to finish it. Since I don't have any prior knowledge of all the characters that appeared in other Higgins' books, I thought, except for Baron Von Berger, NONE of the characters have developed enough depth for me to know and to even care about them. As far as I know they're nothing but a group of thugs and murderers that are feuding over personal vindication in the name of contrived heroic excuses. Halfway through the book, as soon as Baron Von Berger faded into oblivion, I started losing interest in this book. The motivation for Von Berger to declare war against Dillon & Ferguson over Kate Rashid was, at best, weak and contrived. I couldn't find character to relate to or to root for. The plot's thin and the emotion's void. It's extremely disappointing.
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Summary: Pitiful, Abominable
Review: This is the worst book in this entire genre, which is saying a lot. The plot is so thin, the characters so stupid and stereotypical. For example, high-level, British gov't-sponsered assassins/special agents discuss their plans outloud in public places and are...shocking!...overheard! One guy "confesses" to a priest/psychiatrist all the details of his crimes, in a church with his arch-enemy listening in the wings. Sort of a Laurel and Hardy version of a Tom Clancy thriller. How Higgins got to be a millionaire from writing is beyond me. This one was written by the proverbial hundred monkeys randomly pounding keys. No offense to any monkeys out there.
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Summary: I wish I could give it 0 star; what a waste of paper
Review: To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly. This books lacks any suspense. The plot was phoned in. Other than some of the characters there is no resemblence between this book and other Jack Higgins books. Do not think of buying this book. Avoid borrowing it from the library. Use your time to read any other other Jack Higgins book.
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Summary: Bad Company, Bad Book
Review: Will the real Jack Higgins please stand up. Used to be all you had to do was see the name Jack Higgins and you just HAD to buy the book because it would be a winner. Not this time. Maybe it's the glut of World War II books or the interest in maniacal psychopaths such as Hitler, Stalin, Saddam, but this book didn't interest me whatsoever. The plot -- if you really want to call it a plot -- doesn't start until mid-read, and it is a very hazy plot at that. The ending was not an ending, but more of a stop sign -- put up at the end of a circuitous road involving a search for Adolph's Swiss bank fortune. Too many characters, good guys and bad guys, spoil the too-leisurely flow of the story line.
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