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by Jack Higgins (Author) "IT WAS RAINING when they buried Kate Rashid, Countess of Loch Dhu, a rain that swept in across Dauncey Village like a solid curtain, sending..." (more)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Higgins, you can do better!, July 13 2004
By Grant M. Holzworth "G Holzworth" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Company (Paperback)
I have been a long-time Higgins fan. His books, as stated by another poster, are all over the place in quality. When Higgins is "On" he's like lightning. When he's cold, he's like a limp fish. This one is a limp fish. I couldn't even finish the book. Got about 25 pages from the end and just gave up on it. Parts of the book are just down-right hokey; as when he talks about hacking computers...like anyone can hack into the most sensitive files in a computer. He also sprays the book with his usual, and now just old and over-used phrases.

If you want good Higgins read "The Valhalla Exchange" or if you want great Higgins, read "Solo" or "The Eagle has Landed". Solo is a killer book...I read it in one day.

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3.0 out of 5 stars An Appropriate Title for this Book!, May 20 2004
By Gary Turner (Powder Springs, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bad Company (Paperback)
It has been a while since I have read Higgins and I realize I have not missed him. I loved his earlier works, but this was pretty boring. It starts with promise, tracking a S.S. Officer who is entrusted with Hitler's secret diary. This fact amounts to basically nothing and we follow his career to current day where he has become a business tycoon. He finds himself at odds with Sean Dillon and the rest of the plot was like watching paint dry. And as Forest Gump said, "That's all I've got to say about that". If you want WWII related plots, read "Black Cross" by Greg Iles or "Sands of Sakharra" by Glenn Meade.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Aptly named - especially the 'Bad' part, May 14 2004
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This review is from: Bad Company (Hardcover)
This has to be one of the worst books I've read in recent history. I was new to Higgins but figured, how could a guy that's written 35 novels be that bad?

Oh, how wrong I was.

I should have known when Higgins' dust-jacket bio described him as being a multi-millionaire. Who puts that in their bio?

Things got worse from there.

The plot jumped from WWII to Saddam-era Baghdad to current times with alacrity.

A major plot twist is revealed in the span of a page. It's done so quickly that it seems like a convenient way for Higgins, his editor or the publishing company to avoid a whole messy chapter explaining what could have been one of the more exciting parts of the book.

The final 'battle' is over so quickly that the reader is left wondering what the heck just happened.

And so much of the story relies on amazing coincidences, exceptionally good timing and plain old luck, that it wears thin in short order.

I have one thing to say to Higgins' publishing house: BAD company! BAD! You're a naughty company! Do NOT publish any more of this drivel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Dillon never ceases to amaze me
I have read ALL of the Dillon adventures and I find them all exillarating. Jakc Higgins captivates me with each story. Read more
Published on May 8 2004 by bsjba

1.0 out of 5 stars TRADING ON HIS REPUTATION? OVER THE HILL? OR JUST TIRED?

Higgins at his best was unbeatable. At his worst, which this book is, he's hard to tie by even those stinkers that killed the Western genre, such as Tor and M. Read more

Published on May 2 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Premise for a Very Thin Novel
I have always liked the way that Jack Higgins can imagine circumstances that occurred in the past that could have profound, negative consequences today. Read more
Published on April 25 2004 by Professor Donald Mitchell

3.0 out of 5 stars A sparse direct thriller
Once again Sean Dillon must come to the rescue. After the deaths of his adversaries, the Rashid family, Dillon now faces Baron von Berger and his illegitimate son, Marco Rossi,... Read more
Published on Feb 29 2004 by Larry Gandle

1.0 out of 5 stars A kindergarten's police and thief
Recent Higgins' books have become like a children's game of police-and-thief.

Higgins used to produce great thrillers set in WW2 & the Cold War. Read more

Published on Feb 6 2004 by snowy

1.0 out of 5 stars Higgins should have disowned this book
from an ordinary author, this book would be acceptable. it wouldn't be great, but not all books are. from higgins, this is shameful. Read more
Published on Jan 11 2004 by vtibs

2.0 out of 5 stars Same sad company
Any reader expecting great literature will be disappointed and, to be fair, having read about a dozen of Higgins' books myself, such expectations would be more than foolish... Read more
Published on Jan 4 2004 by Peter Lorenzi

3.0 out of 5 stars A Toss-Away Read!
Entertaining and interesting? Yes. A true thriller? Way too predictable to meet that standard. There's no real punch, no real suspense, no real substance and no real characters... Read more
Published on Dec 19 2003 by Bonnie Toews

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh, My!
Screwcaps on wine bottles - actually not invented until about the late 1960s, I think. But that (and a lot of other weird stuff) pales when you compare it to Sara, the secretary... Read more
Published on Dec 12 2003 by Joseph F. Scharrer

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Book is more like it
I used to be a real fan of Higgins' earlier work like The Eagle Has Landed and Storm Warning. I have been less than impressed with his more recent efforts, but fond memories of... Read more
Published on Dec 12 2003 by DL Simmons

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