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Summary: Fast paced. Easy to read.
Review: This is another good book by a great author....A very good story. Character development is good. Some parts of the story leave a little to be desired. The characters seem to stumble across information without having to work for it. I think that a longer version of the story might have been better. More details instead of conicidences or just plain being in the right place at the right time so often. Anyway, this is a fictional (?) story of what may have happened to Hitler's second in command, Borman, during the closing days of the war. Escape by submarine with secret papers and orders to continue the cause after the war ends. The sub gets sunk in a hurrican in the Carribbean. A local diver finds it 40 years later and exposes the contents of the orders.... The British government, as well as the remaining Nazi sympathizers are very interested in obtaining them.... Enough about that. This is a fast read. A good book to read if you are traveling. Easy to pick up right where you left off. Not a lot of details to remember. I think Higgins was in a hurry to get this to the press. :) Still worth reading though.
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Summary: Thunder Point
Review: This is another show of Jack Higgins excelent writing ability. This is a page turner for sure, on the edge of your seat action.
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Summary: Thunder Point
Review: This is another show of Jack Higgins excelent writing ability. This is a page turner for sure, on the edge of your seat action.
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Summary: Bottoms Up!
Review: This is the finest book about drinking I've ever seen. With every action, or conversation, emotion, or other thing of interest, a drink is enjoyed by the characters. Recent studies have shown that a good drink will noticeably improve the dramatic quality of a story. That is quite evident in Thunder Point, whose 320 pages are enhanced with no less than 87 glasses of various types of beer, wine, and spirituous liquor. That is an average of one every 3.5 pages! If only real life could be so liquid! There is an amusing subplot about a U-boat wreck in the waters off the Virgin Islands, but the real action is where the booze is. And I would caution readers new to Higgins that not just action is denoted by the approach of the bartender. Characterizations are also neatly done by the bottle, so to speak. The hero, Sean Dillon, is Irish, but he loves champagne. This renders him romantic, and not a little enigmatic. This is not to say he won't drink other things such as Irish whiskey or even scotch, but the core of his personality is built by champagne. Would you believe he even goes for a bit of brandy after a dive in the cold ocean? Also, the impeccably correct English brigadier who runs covert operations for England prefers scotch, but by the end of the tale he has begun to unbend to the extent that he starts to enjoy champagne, too, seemingly as much as Dillon! I hope it won't be considered a spoiler to relate that while in the first half of the book scotch is running neck and neck with champagne for frequency of mention, by the end champagne has outstripped scotch by 23 glasses--39 to 16. This is in keeping with the generally celebratory and joyous tone of the work. It's a testimony to Higgins' considerable skill as a writer that in the last thirty pages when the characters' drinking falls off, he neatly picks up the slack with mayhem. And the author has clearly done his homework in this department. Not only do the villains kill everyone who knows anything about the submarine, just as they do in real life, so too do the agents of Her Majesty kill everyone who knows anything about the villains. Is it just coincidence that this is how it happens in Hollywood? I don't think so. I think Mr. Higgins has access to the highest levels of government, which in turn are tutored by the sages of Los Angeles. And this is fitting. For years and years Hollywood has been telling us that any problem can be solved with a gun. The box office figures show that they are right. When will people listen? Not only that, but this recent trend toward not smoking and toward accusing smokers of being not romantic is utterly demolished by Sean Dillon. He has a special lighter called a Zippo, and when he uses it to light one of his cigarettes (I'm not sure which brand he likes best, but a champagne called Krug is his favorite champagne) you just know something cool is going to happen. For example, when one of the evil men who is in on the plot to get a briefcase out of the submarine thinks he is going to escape punishment, Dillon is right on the scene and his arrival is heralded by the Zippo. Get this: the Zippo is turned on not to light Dillon's own cigarette, but the evil man's! Then Dillon disposes of the evil man. Don't be turned off by the idea that this is all about scotch and champagne. Beer and wine play an important part, and there is a healthy amount of gin as well. The vodka lovers among you will have to wait until Dillon goes to Russia to sort out some problem there. And if tequila is your favorite, take heart. While there are no references to tequila in Thunder Point, the Virgin Islands are not far from Mexico. Not far at all. Maybe Higgins will send Dillon, Zippo flaring, to the cantinas of Chiapas to work with Subcommandant Marcos to solve that troublesome situation.
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Summary: Thunder Point - Adventure at Sea
Review: Thunder Point is a gripping adventure novel about a young mans' quest to right the wrongs of his past. The story set in Europe and the Caribbean bids the question, can a man skilled in the art of death use his talents to help others? Thunder Points tells the story of Sean Dillion and his quest to answer this question. This novel is enjoyable reading.
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Summary: decent Jack Higgins fiction
Review: Thunder Point is based on the premise of a World War II-era manuscript being uncovered in the present day and having widespread ramifications. For a similar (and much better) tale of suspense, check out Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles. Higgins handles the Dillon character well, and Thunder Point is good enough for a quick satisfying read.
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Summary: Wretched pot-boiler
Review: To really understand how wretched this book is, you need to listen to it on tape, so you are forced to endure every cliche and every needless detail that doesn't advance the plot or add to the (non-existant) characterizations of the protagonists. Higgins did well with "Eagle has landed," but has been phoning it in ever since. I'm going to do something very unusual: return the tape to the library before I'm half way through with this poorly written, trite and overpriced potboiler.
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Summary: Very Good Plot, For Audio Title, Don't get the Roger Moore
Review: version. I've read a few of the Higgins' books, and listened to more. THUNDER POINT brings Sean Dillion into the Fergueson's fold, and the book is a quick read; however, if you are into the audio versions, you might want to avoid the Roger Moore version. His diction is rather (SURPRISE!) wooden. There's a new audio, unabridged at that, coming out in June 2003. I'm hoping that it is better. Too bad Patrick Macnee didn't read this one, too.
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Summary: Very Good Plot, For Audio Title, Don't get the Roger Moore
Review: version. I've read a few of the Higgins' books, and listened to more. THUNDER POINT brings Sean Dillion into the Fergueson's fold, and the book is a quick read; however, if you are into the audio versions, you might want to avoid the Roger Moore version. His diction is rather (SURPRISE!) wooden. There's a new audio, unabridged at that, coming out in June 2003. I'm hoping that it is better. Too bad Patrick Macnee didn't read this one, too.
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Summary: Great!
Review: Wonderful story. My first Higgins book. I went on to read The Eagle Has Landed and others. Great books. You might also like Hunt for the Red October by Tom Clancy. Marvellous piece of writing. Stayed up all night to read both of these books.
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