- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; First Printing edition (20 Mar 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002231425
- ISBN-13: 978-0002231428
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 658,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Widowed American socialite Sarah Tolbert loses her son in a mysterious drug-related death. She travels abroad to investigate the matter and is plunged into a sinister European underworld of murderous organized crime.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the only Jack Higgins to have a woman as the central character. When her step-son is murdered Sarah Talbot wants revenge and hires former SAS man Sean Egan to help her. Together they uncover a web of drugs and murder but their every move is being watched by a mysterious assasin known as Jago. Also features Brigadier Ferguson pulling a few strings in the background! A really good book with plenty of action and a great plot.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Jack Higgins writes books about Men's Men for Men's Men. With heroes that strut around only using each others surnames and with so many cliques it sometimes shocks. Higgins has approximately four character types and even fewer plotlines. 'A Season in Hell' follows plotline 2#Revenge.
After her step son is murdered a wealthy American women decides to hunt down the killers and seek her own justice. Parallel to this story we follow the bad guys themselves and see how they go about avoiding being caught.
This book is great fun to read, very easy and enjoyable. However, it is very similar to 10/20 other Higgins novels I have read to the point were you are not sure if you have read it before. Higgins often reuses character types and storylines and this is one case. The gay funeral director and the reuse of the Brigadier bring back memories of novels past and future.
For all its cliques, stereotypes, easy style and pure nonsense this book is still good fun. If you have read his other books you know what you are in for, if not they are simple, easy, fun reads for Men's Men!
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94 of 100 people found the following review helpful
Exciting to the last moment ....
2 May 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I reserve 5 stars for classics like "The Eagle has landed", but this book comes close. There are plenty of twists and turns and unlike repetitive characters of Higgins, you wonder when a major character in this book will get bumped off the next page.
Sarah Talbot and Sean Egan came from 2 different world, an ex-SAS from London East End who had to quit due to a knee injury, and a Wall Street terror whom Washington bigwigs queue to kiss her hand. But they have one thing in common, people they love had died under strange circumstances and the corpses to smuggle heroin.
Ferguson of Group 4 (in this book, Harry instead of Charles, wonder if they are one and the same), Tony Villiers, another intel officer, knew it was linked to some sensitive issues and made no open inquiry, effectively denying official investigation.
But Sarah Talbot and Sean Egan had no such burdens and vowed to discover the truth and the mastermind behind the tragic deaths of their loved ones.
It was interesting as the bad guys found out early in the game they had crossed powerful people and tried desperately to stay ahead, denying Sarah and Sean information without killing the two bereaved. Sarah carried an aura of protection due to her political connections to the White House, and Sean used his underworld connections to get clues and leads, his uncle being Jack Shelley, an infamous London gangster.
Their adversary was one ex-para named Jago who works for the mysterious Mr Smith. One by one, Jago sought to eliminate the links from the 2 bodies but Sarah and Sean just managed to gain a little clue each time before their links were terminated abruptly.
From London, to Paris, to Sicily, to Ireland, the trail finally leads back to the shadowy streets of London East End where the mysterious Mr Smith is unmasked.
Higgins gave a good description of the trial by fire of Sarah who was determined to step into a different world, of murder and mayhem and lawlessness (illegal ones, not the legal kind in Wall Street). Readers could actually see that it is one thing to be incensed by the murder of a beloved, it is quite another to go out to the streets seeking revenge.
This is definitely one of Higgins' better books, where the reader is kept in suspense and the action was fast and furious but not mindlessly so, with each chapter providing clues and hints and kept essential to the development.
38 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Suspenseful and Fantastic!
10 Jan 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A Season In Hell is about drugs in Europe and what people do to get them. It is also about a woman's struggle to find out how her stepson was murdered. The two main characters, Sarah and Sean are very, very intense. The story takes place all throughout Europe. The book ends very well and is unexpected.
I loved this book! It was amazing. I love the way Jack Higgins wrote this book. The book is non-stop suspense. I would recommend it very, very highly.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Action and humour, Jack Higgins when he is on top
31 Mar 1997
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Action from page one to the last one.
A story that could be true. Drugs and the way some people do anuything to get to the big money.
But Jack Higgins also has a great homour that makes his storyes ver y good reading...Warning!! Ones you start reading this book...be sure you have the time becouse you wont like to stop reading it
A story that could be true. Drugs and the way some people do anuything to get to the big money.
But Jack Higgins also has a great homour that makes his storyes ver y good reading...Warning!! Ones you start reading this book...be sure you have the time becouse you wont like to stop reading it
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