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Summary: a thriller? not even close
Review: Maybe I'm missing something...I've read and loved tons of "thrillers" but Midnight Runner just didn't keep my attention. It actually became a chore to read this book. It had some bright moments, but all in all it wasn't suspenseful, the characters were not that interesting, and the action was extremely hackneyed. Don't waste your time with this book, it's mediocre at best.
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Summary: a thriller? not even close
Review: Maybe I'm missing something...I've read and loved tons of "thrillers" but Midnight Runner just didn't keep my attention. It actually became a chore to read this book. It had some bright moments, but all in all it wasn't suspenseful, the characters were not that interesting, and the action was extremely hackneyed. Don't waste your time with this book, it's mediocre at best.
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Summary: Sean Dillion is back & it's a good read!
Review: Midnight Runner continues the adventures of Sean Dillon and his colleagues dealing with Kate Rashid. Ms. Rashid is the only member of her immediate family still living but now she is joined by her cousin as she seeks revenge. I really enjoyed this book and the action packed adventure that Mr. Higgins has written. It is an interesting plot and a very enjoyable read. I love the Sean Dillon character and I only wish that someday Jack Higgins will give more ink to Hannah Bernstein - She is an interesting character and deserves to be more fully involved in the plot and story development.
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Summary: ANOTHER NON-STOP THRILLER FROM JACK HIGGINS.
Review: Sean Dillon and company are at it again and the action is as we would expect from Higgins. I read this book in practically one sitting and enjoyed it a lot. I am looking forward to the next Dillon outing and wondering about Kate Rashid????? As one reviewer mentioned unleavened bread and Savile Row suits, who cares? The plot's the thing and there's plenty of action to move it along.
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Summary: Almost as poorly written as Harry Potter
Review: Thank God I borrowed the CD from the library instead of spending hard earned moola. This novel leaves you wondering what kind of a Mickey Mouse world Higgin's characters inhabit. The story line is somewhat passable if not formulaic: wealthy meglomaniac wants to screw over the the USA and the world big time but is thwarted by a small rag tag band from a super secret agency. Everything in the novel is overly simplified and lacking in any details or logic for that matter. For example, the main hero Sean Dillion is ex-IRA who works for Her Majesty's Secret Service now. There's a superficial explanation of how that came about, and for some reason all the Brits and Americans are perfectly happy to be best buds with a former terrorist murderer and let him into their secret ranks. Fine, I never read the prequel so maybe I missed the explanation there, but if everybody seems to know and hate everybody else in this book because of a past blood feud, why does everybody spend the first half of the book having drinks and dinner over polite conversation with their sworn enemies only to spend the second half trying to eliminate them? If you're going to kill somebody, kill them, don't buy them dinner and drinks so you can pontificate about how bad you are! The other thing is that for secret agents and military nobody seems to care about being followed or bugged or anything. It's as if all the characters were actors following a bad script and just going through the motions because that is what the screenplay says. If you've read any Andy McNab or Tom Clancy you know they both go to great lengths (sometimes painfully so) to give realistic details about how agents or soldiers act and what motivates them. Higgins would have you believe that thwarting couple of SAS hit men is nothing more difficult than a jog in the park. Speaking of details, Higgins would have you believe that everybody in the world drinks gallons of Bushmills and are armed with Walther PPK's and AK-47's. To summarize, the plot is full of holes, the characters one dimensional and the writing is unimaginative.
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Summary: Almost as poorly written as Harry Potter
Review: Thank God I borrowed the CD from the library instead of spending hard earned moola. This novel leaves you wondering what kind of a Mickey Mouse world Higgin's characters inhabit. The story line is somewhat passable if not formulaic: wealthy meglomaniac wants to screw over the the USA and the world big time but is thwarted by a small rag tag band from a super secret agency. Everything in the novel is overly simplified and lacking in any details or logic for that matter. For example, the main hero Sean Dillion is ex-IRA who works for Her Majesty's Secret Service now. There's a superficial explanation of how that came about, and for some reason all the Brits and Americans are perfectly happy to be best buds with a former terrorist murderer and let him into their secret ranks. Fine, I never read the prequel so maybe I missed the explanation there, but if everybody seems to know and hate everybody else in this book because of a past blood feud, why does everybody spend the first half of the book having drinks and dinner over polite conversation with their sworn enemies only to spend the second half trying to eliminate them? If you're going to kill somebody, kill them, don't buy them dinner and drinks so you can pontificate about how bad you are! The other thing is that for secret agents and military nobody seems to care about being followed or bugged or anything. It's as if all the characters were actors following a bad script and just going through the motions because that is what the screenplay says. If you've read any Andy McNab or Tom Clancy you know they both go to great lengths (sometimes painfully so) to give realistic details about how agents or soldiers act and what motivates them. Higgins would have you believe that thwarting couple of SAS hit men is nothing more difficult than a jog in the park. Speaking of details, Higgins would have you believe that everybody in the world drinks gallons of Bushmills and are armed with Walther PPK's and AK-47's. To summarize, the plot is full of holes, the characters one dimensional and the writing is unimaginative.
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Summary: Should have been a comic book
Review: The Book,Got lost in what should have been the main people
I fell a sleep while reading it only to find I had read a hundred pages.
Not a great piece of work for such a good writer
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Summary: Disappionted
Review: The first Jack Higgins book I read was "Pay the Devil" and I loved that book. This book however is a totally different story while it was a good enough book to read on a plane or waiting in an airport its not one of those books you want read agian. Its all the same plot Mideast terrorist organization wants to stop the oil supply nothing ground breaking here. My impression-Lots of action, but the characters for the most part are 2 dimensional and uninteresting. I mean heck thinking back on it the only characters that I can remember are Quinn, Billy and Sean Dillon.
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Summary: Better than Some, Be Sure to Read the Prequel
Review: There's no doubt about it, Jack Higgins writes a lot. This piece, which has as a companion piece the book EDGE OF DANGER, is actually much stronger in plot and characters than EDGE was. However, I would suggest to all that they read EDGE of DANGER before reading MIDNIGHT RUNNER because you get much more of the history of the characters who are of the House of Dauncey, especially Kate, whom I picture is sort of a Catherine Zeta-Jones type of beauty. As for which version of the books is the best, I have read and listened to the unabridged version of MIDNIGHT RUNNER and found that listening to the audio version by Patrick Macnee adds more to the sometimes limited, in description, words of Higgins. While I would recommend MIDNIGHT RUNNER to anyone, whether they have read EDGE of DANGER or not, I believe you will appreciate RUNNER more if you have read the history of the Dauncey family as it happened in EDGE of DANGER
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Summary: Better than Some, Be Sure to Read the Prequel
Review: There's no doubt about it, Jack Higgins writes a lot. This piece, which has as a companion piece the book EDGE OF DANGER, is actually much stronger in plot and characters than EDGE was. However, I would suggest to all that they read EDGE of DANGER before reading MIDNIGHT RUNNER because you get much more of the history of the characters who are of the House of Dauncey, especially Kate, whom I picture is sort of a Catherine Zeta-Jones type of beauty. As for which version of the books is the best, I have read and listened to the unabridged version of MIDNIGHT RUNNER and found that listening to the audio version by Patrick Macnee adds more to the sometimes limited, in description, words of Higgins. While I would recommend MIDNIGHT RUNNER to anyone, whether they have read EDGE of DANGER or not, I believe you will appreciate RUNNER more if you have read the history of the Dauncey family as it happened in EDGE of DANGER
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