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The Keys of Hell

The Keys of Hell

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Higgins never disapoints
Review: A truly great espionage thriller by the New York times' best selling author. Mr. Higgins is in top form. He never disapoints and this new thriller shows you how he keeps you guessing until the end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Higgins never disapoints
Review: A truly great espionage thriller by the New York times' best selling author. Mr. Higgins is in top form. He never disapoints and this new thriller shows you how he keeps you guessing until the end.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The master is back.
Review: Another tour de force to be reckoned with. A first rate thriller by the author of The Eagle Has Landed.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Exciting
Review: At First, I didn't think I would like this book. But I kept an open mind . This book had the best plot twists I have ever read in a Jack Higgins novel in a long time. Chavesse is no Sean Dillion but is a close second. Take time explore this book you won't be sorry.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: exciting and breath taking
Review: I think others should read this book, but only if you like war and drugs and things like that. This book is a real good book because of the way they use the language and images are almost real clear. It's about an undercover cop who try's to get rescue the sectaries daughter, from a drug lord who holds her for ransom. The worst aspect of this book is that it corresponds with drugs. Some times the book bounces around from the past to the present and just changes when ever.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good, not great
Review: Jack Higgins has certainly given us another of his high-powered action thrillers. The pace is so quick, the plot twists like a snake, the writing is taut and to the point. All good things.

However, even though the characters are likeable, they are not parituclarly developed. That, I feel, is often Higgins's letdown. He gets so wrapped up in the action that he forgets to give his characters deep personalities. Instead, we just see snapshots of people who, really, could be any hero from any thriller novel. All he really does is gives his characters names and then inserts those names into the story. The characters are just there to keep the plot moving along. The problem is that practically all the people in this novel are interchangeable with those of another. For example, Chevasse shares almost exactly the same personality traits as Sean Dillon. As does Liri, who is Jack Higgins's typical lead woman. they are all the same, in all his novels. Their names and pasts just change.

That said, this is still a very good book. The pace never lets up, it's a pageturner and it's quick. If you like a good action thriller and don't particulalry mind about characters, then this is the book for you. (Even if the margins on the English edition are ridiculously big.)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Features super-spy Paul Chevasse on a high-risk mission
Review: The Keys Of Hell is an unabridged, action-packed audiobook thriller by Jack Higgins and features super-spy Paul Chevasse on a high-risk mission to find and take out a double agent in the isolated republic of Albania. But someone has set a deadly trap for him - someone who holds the "keys of hell" - and completing his mission will take far more than a cool head and cold blood. Skillfully narrated by twenty-year career British theater and radio play actor Christian Rodska, The Keys Of Hell is an tale so engrossing that listening to it makes time fly -- and leads to an eager expectation of the next New Millennium Audio edition of a Jack Higgins thriller. 4 hours, 4 cassettes.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Easy Money for Big Jack
Review: The Keys of Hell was originally published in the 60s when Jack Higgins seemed to pump out the thrillers by the truckload under 14 different psuedonymns. According to the preamble at the start of this new edition, the publishers felt it was too good a story to languish out of print, so here it is, freshened up and available in the new millenium... There's almost nothing to like about this book. I give it half a star because Sean Dillon isn't in it and another half star for a vaguely exciting ending.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: The Keys of Shallow
Review: The Keys of Hell was very shallow when it came to charicter development. The action was good and the discriptions of events were good, but beyond that there was nothing. It seems like he's trying to just write another book like another essay for a high schooler, not putting any thought into it and just focusing on the basics. Higgins is capable of a lot better, as shown with the Flight of Eagles. Two stars for plot and discription of events, and nothing else.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: The Keys of Shallow
Review: The Keys of Hell was very shallow when it came to charicter development. The action was good and the discriptions of events were good, but beyond that there was nothing. It seems like he's trying to just write another book like another essay for a high schooler, not putting any thought into it and just focusing on the basics. Higgins is capable of a lot better, as shown with the Flight of Eagles. Two stars for plot and discription of events, and nothing else.


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