- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; First Edition edition (4 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007127170
- ISBN-13: 978-0007127177
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 651,901 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bad Company is a competent, unmemorable example of the sort of thriller Jack Higgins can do almost without thinking. His usual characters--former IRA assassin Sean Dillon--and his various allies in British Intelligence and the London underworld--find themselves having to cope again with the consequences of earlier actions. German millionaire Berger and his illegitimate mafioso son Rossi are determined to avenge Kate Rashid, who was herself killed trying to take revenge for her brothers, whom Dillon killed for entirely good reasons of national security. Berger is, however, a more problematic enemy, since he was the last man out of the Berlin fuhrerbunker and is the repository for Hitler's genuine, and extremely compromising, diaries. Specifically, he is the man who can prove that there were peace negotiations between the Nazis and the father of the current US president. There is intelligence here, and some superficial expertise about stunt-flying, but far too much of the plot is a recycling of elements Higgins has found reliable in the past. This is one for his many committed admirers rather than for new readers. --Roz Kaveney
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‘Open a Jack Higgins novel and you’ll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers … first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.’
Sunday Express
‘Higgins is a master of his craft.’
Daily Telegraph
‘A thriller writer in a class of his own.’
Financial Times
‘The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.’
Daily Mail
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I do not want to spoil this book for those who have not read it. And to express my feelings I would have to do that......
All I would say is that it seems like Jack Higgins was up against a dealine with this book - Sean Dillon and General Ferguson are back. The story starts in 1945 and ends in modern day London and drwas you in with all the skill that Higgins has.
However, and this is the bad bit, the end of the story is wrapped up far too quickly - it's as if there was a deadline looming or Higgins just decided to tie up all the loose ends....
The story is great (4 stars) but the end takes away what could have been a fantastic book (1 star).
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sean Dillon is back. Dillon, Ferguson and the gang are all back in this explosive new story. The plot speeds like an express train with plenty of twists and you hate Rossi, who has entered the story on the side of the Rashid's. Higgins marries the past of Hitler and his diary with the modern setting of the Oil fields of the Middle East and once again bring good up against evil.The characters remain strong and this is Jack Higgins, once more, at his best. All Higgins fans will read this without being able to put it down until it's completed.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In my review of Jack Higgins' last novel I said that his writing had become so formulaic that you could easily skip chapters and correctly guess exactly what was in them. "Bad Company" is even worse: anyone who has read an earlier Sean Dillon could probably write this novel themselves after reading the synopsis on the dust-jacket (I assume Higgins either wrote this in his sleep, or got his dog to write it). There is no sense of character (Ferguson, Dillon, the Salters etc all talk the same now), the action happens in all the usual locations (hotel piano bars, Wapping) and the plot development is nil.
"Bad Company" is identical to the previous half dozen Dillon stories: nasty baddies have an explosive secret on a central character, nasty baddies are out to get everyone but luckily Dillon gets them first. Having killed off all the Rashids in the last 2 books, Higgins has to create a new carbon-copy adversary, who is the surprise "silent partner" of the Rashids and who happens to own the only copy of Hitler's Diaries (which contain a nasty secret about the US president).
In short, the Dillon series has run its course and the author has nothing new to say about either the characters or the genre he so expertly mastered in the past. Mr Higgins needs to develop some new ideas before he pens another novel (preferably with a new set of characters).
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Very rushed quite shoddy
This book is quite lazy in style. The characters and plot were so similar to other works it was a shame to spend the money on this treatment. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Brian Butterly
A good writer, a bad plot
This is actually the first Jack Higgins I've read. Two impressions stand out. Firstly, Higgins writes with extraordinary economy and pace; you race through the tale, caught... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2005 by Budge Burgess
Not as good as some of Higgins' books
This is another thriller featuring Sean Dillon, ex IRA operative turned agent for an unnamed British Intelligence Agency headed by General Charles Ferguson. Read more
Published on 31 July 2005 by "pennymwood2"
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. In Bad Company, Mr. Read more
Published on 1 Jun 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Going through the motions
It had been several years since I last read a Jack Higgins novel and, having read this offering, it'll be even longer before I read another one! Read more
Published on 28 May 2004 by Bruce Wallace
The worst book I have ever read, bar none.
I picked this up to read on holiday and can't believe how bad it is. The characterisation is terrible, the plotting feeble and the actual writing itself is just beyond appalling. Read more
Published on 17 May 2004 by "d_black6662"
An Interesting Premise for a Very Thin Novel
I have always liked the way that Jack Higgins can imagine circumstancesthat occurred in the past that could have profound, negative consequencestoday. In Bad Company, Mr. Read more
Published on 25 April 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Really bad ending...!!!!
The entire mystery surrounding a supposed "Hitler Diary" could have been interesting. However, the story was moderately interesting, with a *terrible* ending. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2004
Bad Company
Being an avid reader of all the Sean Dillon adventures, I was very disappointed in this book. It totally failed to grip my attention as all of the others and left me feeling let... Read more
Published on 22 Nov 2003 by "sheila2674"
jack higgins does it again
Bad Company is a must for all Jack Higgins enthusiasts, the book brings together all the thrills of the characters that have been a recipe for success for this author. Read more
Published on 6 Sep 2003 by Joseph John Williams
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