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Summary: "The Presiden's Daughter"
Review: If you like books that have a lot to do with the CIA and the secret service this is for you. There was much talk of different types of government officials. It started out really good. The plot line was flowing and it got very interesting. After the first few chapters the book started to drag. It got boring and slow. There were many non understandable details. There are many confusing scenes and people. Jack Higgins had a great plot idea, but put too many unnecesary details. This book is definetly a guy book. As a girl I did not enjoy it. There were too many different places in this book. Higgins skipped from place to place without reason. I got lost in different ideas that the president and his advisors had. Somethings were very well explained, but others were not explained enough. This book could have been better if I understood the way the system works more. Also, the plan of action that they were taking could have been explained better. It was never told in full detail. It made it a little confusing. The character Marie (the president's daughter) was very interesting to me. The president though was not described as well as he should have been. This book disturbed me in a way. I could not believe that people who are out of the system and the computer system, could know so much about it and practically control it. I recomend this book to people who enjoy government related books. Mainly guys. If you do not understand the computer system, then I would not read it. If I were to say one good thing about this book it would be that the idea of the plot was a very good one.
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Summary: A Unique Thriller from Higgins
Review: The president of the US has a daughter from an affair with a French woman in Vietnam. When a terrorist group learns the girls identity, it's up to British agent, ex-terrorist Sean Dillon to save her from the mastermind named Judas. This is an exciting romp as Dillon uses his abilities to find and rescue the girl from her kidnappers before they can bend the President to do their bidding.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: In 1969, during the Vietnam War. Jake Cazalet and his friend Teddy saved the life of a Frenchwomen. Jake ended having a brief affair, she disapeared from his life. 15 years later, Jake visits Paris where he meets a women and falls madly in love with her. He soon finds out that she is the daughter of the Frenchwomen in Vietnam, his daughter. Jake became the President of the United States and someone found out his secret. They threated him to leave office. This was a really suspenceful book with a surprise ending. The President's Daughter deserves four stars. The story line keeps you reading the book constantly. The man vs. man and man vs. society conflicts are very conflicts
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Summary: Anothe Quick and Fun Read from Jack Higgins
Review: A good read that gets you right into the action from page one. This is the second "Sean Dillon" book that I have read by Jack Higgins though I preferred "Drink With the Devil". Here, Dillon has been asked to rescue the daughter of the President from some Israeli extremists. Like other Higgen's books, the characters are net very complex (with the exception perhaps of Sean Dillon).What I liked about this book is, like an old B-movie, it never slows down. Dillon and his connections have almost no time to solve a mystery and prevent an international crisis...and he's only in it for the money and the fact that he would hate to see a nice woman like the President's daughter get rubbed out by a crazy man. Reserve this book for the beach. Don't expect Wuthering Heights and prepare to turn some pages real fast.
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Summary: A poor reading from a one time master.
Review: Another Sean Dillon book from a weakened Jack Higgins. It's obvious now that a classic author has fallen into a series writer like Gerard De Villiers. This book can be granted only of a very fast pace and of movie flow plot. And that's it. No characters' deepening, no complete scenery narrations (in the shake of galloping pace), not complete plot strings of a detective or spy story complex, neither a copy of a Ludlum/Follet/Clancy style of brainiac plot. Action is also poor, at very few points and not intense, neither interesting in its resolution. The Sean Dillon superheroe motto is all around the book again and it reminds to someone the decades of videos that the heroe gets out of it with neither a scratch. Not to forget to mention that the side characters are accrued with characteristics or adjectives without a logical explanation, neither proving it, so they end as stupid as a vase flower, just ornamental. The plot itself is simplistic, with a minimalistic element of surprise (as to the Judas' alter ego), but those readers of detective stories background will start guessing somewhere at the middle. Continuous action spot changes present the movie characterto the plot, presenting cosmopolitan type elements of a 007 story, alas it's not a witty Ian Fleming here, but an aging Higgins who thinks that by writting many books a year will keep him at a writers' elite. Perhaps its even his publisher's fault. Whatever the reason the poor reader, will have a medium to fair time spending, but nothing more. Shame.
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Summary: undown-putable!
Review: Superb work by a huge master. His works in the past have always enthralled me. He just keeps getting better and better with each new work.
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Summary: In a word.....TERRIBLE!
Review: The plot has a lot of potential, but no development. The story is undescriptive to the point of being difficult to follow, and the characters themselves have about as much depth as a potato chip. Reality is always an option in these types of books, but Higgins rides the line between NBA reality and WWF fiction with all of the grace of a child. I would wish this book upon no one.
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Summary: An Irish James Bond ??
Review: After finishing reading the book you are left with an strange empty feeling. The story is intriguing and fast pace and the characters have the potential of being interesting, but you never find anything about them. Most of the characters could be replace by anyone of any race or gender. It's a bit like a James Bond movie where a character is going around solving problem just by being there. There is depth to any of the character except for The President (and even him takes a back place after the first third of the book). Not that the action parts are not interesting and I hope that Sean Dillon gets Air Miles cause this story goes to a lot of places in Europe and America in a few days. Now if you are looking for a book for fast reading with action and some intrigue, I do recommend this book. But If you are looking for something in witch you want to get involved with the characters and understand why such character act as he or she does, this book might leave you a bit wanting.
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Summary: Details, Details, Details
Review: This book was filled with needless details. It was slow and boring. I was ready to quit reading after the 10th page. I did read the entire book, thinking that it would get better, but alas, not to be! I don't recommend this to anyone....
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Summary: The Presiden't Daughter was a lame book.
Review: The President's Daughter is the first Jack Higgins book that I have ever read, and it will probably be the last. I am surpirsed that I finished it at all. It had no depth, no realism, no character development, it was a total waste of time. Sean Dillon is a poor hero, a total imitation of James Bond to the point that he introduces himself as "Dillon-Sean Dillon"!!!!! Give me a break. And the action was so melodramitic that I was ready to laugh. At least it was only 278 pages. It was a quick death. This book could have been stretched out mercilessly over 600 pages, and that would have been a total disaster.
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