- Paperback
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Oct 7 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007127278
- ISBN-13: 978-0007127276
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Almost as poorly written as Harry Potter,
By Golfer X (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Midnight Runner Unabridged (Audio CD)
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.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Superficial adolescent tripe,
This review is from: Midnight Runner (Paperback)
I think Mr Higgins is suffering from Alzheimer's in his golden years - Midnight Runner is a big letdown from his previous work, so much so that I would venture to guess that this book was ghost-written by an aspiring creative writing student Don't waste your time or your money
2.0 out of 5 stars
a thriller? not even close,
By Steve Meyer (NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Midnight Runner (Mass Market Paperback)
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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