- Hardcover: 295 pages
- Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd; 1st. Edition edition (7 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002261278
- ISBN-13: 978-0002261272
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 406,618 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Jack Higgins's Fox is a Mafioso of the new breed--well-spoken, cultured, a war hero--but prepared to kill on reflex. When Fox kills a woman journalist for spying on his affairs, he omits to check out her past; her ex-husband, Blake Johnson, a security adviser to the President, swears bloody vengeance on him and is joined by his friends, notably Sean Dillion, the former IRA enforcer, in a crusade to humiliate Fox before killing him.
"We take this animal out, only we do it my way. It's too easy to shoot him on the street. I want this to be slow and painful. We destroy his miserable little empire bit by bit until he has nothing left. And then we destroy him."
In a sequence of short episodes, each of Fox's enterprises--a London casino, a deal with the Army of God over uranium-tipped missiles, a diamond heist, arming IRA holdouts against the peace process--is taken away from him; we know, though, from the start, that the final reckoning is still to come, and that Blake will find himself Fox's prisoner in the waterlogged cellars of a Cornish castle ... Higgins has a formula down pat, and will never disappoint his myriad fans. We get a lot of technical details about just how to blow up a ship or crack a safe, and a group of adventurers whose utter ruthlessness goes along with sentiment and loyalty. This is the mixture as before, efficiently done. --Roz Kaveney
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‘Higgins is a master of his craft.’
Daily Telegraph
‘A thriller writer in a class of his own.’
Financial Times
‘A compulsively readable storyteller.’
Sunday Express
‘The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.’
Daily Mail
‘It’s Dillon’s likeability and the author’s adroitness in giving his character the room he needs that make Higgins’s novels so readable.’
Washington Times
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Read this whilst in Hospital recently. Along with some of the other reviews, I thought that taking a line through The Eagle has Landed, it would be a safe bet to while away time. I can't believe that the same person has written this sub Tom Clancey tosh. Wholly unbelievable characters and scenarios. Avoid at all costs.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With each book we find that Dillon REALLY doesn't care whether he lives or dies. His boldness is trademark. Ruthless, I enjoyed seeing Bernstein finally get up and walk away from it all. Higgins is doing well. However, Dillon, IS getting old. And some of the plots are predictable. I would like to see Higgins write another one about WWII, those are some of his best.
Format:Paperback
Well, I've seen review from the some, and I agree in many ways.
I've read Higgins since his excellent WWII drama "The Eagle has landed".
Since then ups and downs, lately most downs, but this........
It took only a chapter to guess the rest of the story, he'll giving it away.
Some of the scenarios and plots are out of this world, muslims attacking Jerusalem with Nuke, destroying one of their most holy places, birthplace of Abraham????
I think not. Using Thugs instead of SAS / SBS for operations, instant Parachute training for a Night jump....... What the He.. !!
And bringing AK47 with them, well first of all, if using this type, they'll use AK74 which is the more modern version, And their hang-up in Walther pistol and Uzi's. Perhaps in the 70's but in Real life, MP5 and Beretta 92 off course.
Mossad working with a former IRA gunman, trained in Libiya, They would rather eat Bacon and Ham daily.
Clean up your act, drop Dillon, he's outdated a long time ago.
I'll forget this as soon as possible, and read the Eagle again.
I've read Higgins since his excellent WWII drama "The Eagle has landed".
Since then ups and downs, lately most downs, but this........
It took only a chapter to guess the rest of the story, he'll giving it away.
Some of the scenarios and plots are out of this world, muslims attacking Jerusalem with Nuke, destroying one of their most holy places, birthplace of Abraham????
I think not. Using Thugs instead of SAS / SBS for operations, instant Parachute training for a Night jump....... What the He.. !!
And bringing AK47 with them, well first of all, if using this type, they'll use AK74 which is the more modern version, And their hang-up in Walther pistol and Uzi's. Perhaps in the 70's but in Real life, MP5 and Beretta 92 off course.
Mossad working with a former IRA gunman, trained in Libiya, They would rather eat Bacon and Ham daily.
Clean up your act, drop Dillon, he's outdated a long time ago.
I'll forget this as soon as possible, and read the Eagle again.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A non event
Not a bad book, I suppose. You'll steam through it in no time, there's plenty of action, but it's just a load of dross. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2010 by Christof
Pot boiler
A very thin and repetitive plot, too many characters, assumption made that you know the characters from his other books, little to recommend it.
Published on 6 May 2008 by Mr. David Beattie
really, really bad
Just randomly picked this up becasue i tend to like action/thriller books, but this is really, really bad, the dialogue is incredibly bad, the characters lack ant depth. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2008 by T. Barker
my first Jack Higgins
This book starts off very interestingly and excitingly, then goes back a long way to the beginning of the story to explain everything that has happened in the meantime. Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2006 by Gina Skinner
Brilliant Book
This was one of the first Jack Higgins books that i've read, but i have to say that it is one of the best. It is brilliantly written and you can't put it down. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2006 by Andy
Very disappointing
I must agree with many of the reviews already written about this book. Having enjoyed "The Eagle has Landed" many years ago, I thought Higgins would be a relatively safe... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2002
Another excellent Sean Dillon thriller
I was surprised to see that this particular novel has not been rated as highly as previous Sean Dillon adventures by Amazon reviewers. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2002 by M. Simmonds
An up-all-nighter.
This is by a very very very long stretch, the best Jack Higgins has ever written. (you can tell that violently disagree with almost every other reviewer) An exciting plot. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2001
Very dissapointing
This book has lost direction and not in character with usual Sean Dillon books.
Published on 16 Jan 2001
Cardboard super heroes in a film script written for GCSE
This was a Christmas present. I read it all (unfortunately). It is full of cartoon super heroes of the English, American, Irish and Israeli flavours, with Mafia and Irish baddies. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2001
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