After the Civil War, Confederate Col. Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland. But Ireland is embroiled in a civil war of its own--the Fenian Rebellion. Clay wants to avoid the conflict, but after witnessing the plight of the common people, Clay is unable to stand by. Taking the guise of a legendary outl...
bookshelves: published-2001, winter-20142015, series, tbr-busting-2014, spies, terrorism, mystery-thriller, adventure, testost-tosh Read from December 31, 2014 to January 02, 2015 Description: From bestselling author Jack Higgins comes a new thriller reuniting heroic American agent Blake Johnso...
This is the type of story that fills my need to know, it also had enough brutal action scenes to make even the greatest armchair adrenaline junkie like me happy!Not your run of the mill suspenseful intrigue but rather a thriller that will catch you unawares time and again just when you think you hav...
I have read and enjoyed many of Jack Higgins Books. This is a reasonable read though Unfortunately this one seems to be “more of the same” and rather predictable.
What would have happened if, during WWII, the German Nazis had been able to kidnap or murder British Prime Minister Winston Churchill? In the dark, early years of the war, Churchill had been the epitome of the British lion; the man who kept England in a war that most European leaders feared was alre...
Best line in the book: "You can't expect good Irish bacon on an Italian boat crewed by Arabic fundamentalists off the coast of Syria." Rating = 3.5 stars
A library audio book that kept me awake while traveling cross country. It almost didn't do the job--the book was pretty slow to start and the guy who did the recording was hard to understand at first. But once the story got going I enjoyed the action and the WWII history lesson.
A classic. I'm putting this on my bookshelf as it was the first adult book I read at 12 years old - I'd always seen it on my Grandad's bookshelf and wanted to read it so one long weekend, it was handed to me. I became absolutely engrossed.It's one of those books that you can re-read every few years ...
I thought I would give Higgins another try. Several years ago I listened to part of a Sean Dillon novel and it must have been the reader. I quit half way through. This one is read by a different reader and perhaps it's the narration or simply a better story, but this one was riveting. The KGB ha...
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