- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz (22 Jan 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575079878
- ISBN-13: 978-0575079878
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 496,154 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"It's all good fun: subterfuge, ritual, torture and death all being meted out. There're some twists, and the action is worryingly genuine, giving the feeling maybe some of the elements may actually be true. Not quite as good as Devereux's debut, but a worthy follow up." (David Howe DEATHRAY )
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Jack's back! And this time he must face a terrifying supernatural threat from Europe's recent past. Someone has been mad enough to revive the most terrifying evil of the last 60 years. And only one man is bad enough to stop them. Eagle Rising takes Jack to the rotten heart of big business and the dark secrets of a neo-nazi magical sect intent on giving the world back to a terror from the darkest days of the 1940s. Jack must infiltrate the closed corridors of big business and reach the core of a conspiracy amongst some of the most high-pwered city executives in the country. A cabal of business men with occult interests and an insane hunger for the return of an old and dark order. Described as a mix of Dennis Wheatley and Ian Fleming Devereux lives up to the billing with his new novel.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Eagle Rising is the sequel and follow-up to Hunter's Moon. That book established the character of 'Jack', a special forces/wizard fighting the forces of evil on behalf of Her Majesty's Government. Eagle Rising picks up the action a year or two after the first book, again with an unrelated action-packed James Bond-esque prologue before the story proper kicks off.
Jack is given a new mission: his bosses have gotten wind of something occult and dangerous in the offing, apparently linked to a neo-Nazi group operating in London. Jack is assigned to infiltrate the group via one of their money men, who works in a London bank. Jack is successful, but initially finds little evidence of magical involvement amongst the racist thugs and football hooligans whose favourite past-time is to complain at length about Britain being overrun and ruined by immigrants and homosexuals. When this group's tactics turn violent, Jack uncovers a more sinister link to an organisation with a very ambitious plan indeed...
Sadly Eagle Rising features no kinky sex or lesbian bondage witches like its forebear, which will no doubt divide readers on the appeal of the novel. The story otherwise unfolds in a similar manner to the first book, however, with Jack's investigative skills and magical abilities deployed intelligently to investigate a problem and find a resolution. This the author pulls off quite well, resulting in a readable, exciting action-adventure novel with some good thriller elements. The writing shows improvement from the first volume, and characterisation is stronger. Jack's ambiguous feelings towards some of the people in the neo-Nazi movement (some of whom don't seem to really be there but are from peer pressure) are nicely played, and his complex relationship with an MI5 officer from the first book evolves quite well. The story is pretty daft - possibly dafter than the first one if that is possible - but played straight and works due to that.
Eagle Rising (****) is a fast-paced, enjoyable read which improves on the first novel. It's not likely to win any awards or change any lives, but it is certainly entertaining and well thought-out.
Jack is given a new mission: his bosses have gotten wind of something occult and dangerous in the offing, apparently linked to a neo-Nazi group operating in London. Jack is assigned to infiltrate the group via one of their money men, who works in a London bank. Jack is successful, but initially finds little evidence of magical involvement amongst the racist thugs and football hooligans whose favourite past-time is to complain at length about Britain being overrun and ruined by immigrants and homosexuals. When this group's tactics turn violent, Jack uncovers a more sinister link to an organisation with a very ambitious plan indeed...
Sadly Eagle Rising features no kinky sex or lesbian bondage witches like its forebear, which will no doubt divide readers on the appeal of the novel. The story otherwise unfolds in a similar manner to the first book, however, with Jack's investigative skills and magical abilities deployed intelligently to investigate a problem and find a resolution. This the author pulls off quite well, resulting in a readable, exciting action-adventure novel with some good thriller elements. The writing shows improvement from the first volume, and characterisation is stronger. Jack's ambiguous feelings towards some of the people in the neo-Nazi movement (some of whom don't seem to really be there but are from peer pressure) are nicely played, and his complex relationship with an MI5 officer from the first book evolves quite well. The story is pretty daft - possibly dafter than the first one if that is possible - but played straight and works due to that.
Eagle Rising (****) is a fast-paced, enjoyable read which improves on the first novel. It's not likely to win any awards or change any lives, but it is certainly entertaining and well thought-out.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Eagle Rising is David Devereux's follow up to his debut novel Hunter's Moon. Once again it features Jack (surname unknown), the wizard-cum-secret agent employed by an ultra-secret British Government department tasked with protecting the country from supernatural threats. This time Jack's mission involves infiltrating a sinister far right group that may be doing more than simply dabbling with occult black magic.
This is a more accessible book than Hunter's Moon. It still has hard and pretty dark edge, and Jack remains very much the anti-hero. One scene inparticular, where Jack effectively tortures a man before killing him, albeit for the sake of the mission rather than pleasure, is pretty gory reading, and some of the other decisions he makes duirng the course of the book are at best morally questionable. Despite these elements however, Eagle Rising is far less off the wall than its predecessor. Whilst there are supernatural aspects to the story they're far less dominant than in Hunter's Moon and there is none of the mildly kinky sex that predominated in Jack's first adventure. Overall Devereux writing seems far more confident and less reliant on shock tactics to keep the reader interested.
Its just a pity that the book feels so truncated. I'm not a huge fan of door-step sized novels, but Devereux takes brevity to the other extreme. By the final act he tries to cram so much action into so few pages that, whilst the pace is ferocious, clarity suffers. On several occasions I found myself having to reread large chunks to try and work out precisely what was happening, and even then I felt certain pieces of information had been omitted simply to save space but at the sake of coherence. There's nothing wrong with keep the story moving along, but not when its done at the sake of coherence.
Despite this however, Eagle Rising is still highly enjoyable and I will look forward to Jack's next adventure. Despite his somewhat dubious methods he remains a compelling lead character. Devereux also manages to expand the universe he has created quite nicely, fleshing out some recurring characters he introduced in Hunters Moon and tidying up some ideas that were interesting but didn't quite work last time (such as Jack's boss's pan-dimensional office). It will be especially interesting to see how the relationship between Jack and Miss Marsh develops in light of events during this book.
I just hope that David Devereux gives Jack, Miss Marsh and everyone else more time to breath and the next story the space it deserves. He's a writer with talent and both books have been highly enjoyable. Adding fifty pages to their lenght is not going to harm them and might actually be of benefit overall.
This is a more accessible book than Hunter's Moon. It still has hard and pretty dark edge, and Jack remains very much the anti-hero. One scene inparticular, where Jack effectively tortures a man before killing him, albeit for the sake of the mission rather than pleasure, is pretty gory reading, and some of the other decisions he makes duirng the course of the book are at best morally questionable. Despite these elements however, Eagle Rising is far less off the wall than its predecessor. Whilst there are supernatural aspects to the story they're far less dominant than in Hunter's Moon and there is none of the mildly kinky sex that predominated in Jack's first adventure. Overall Devereux writing seems far more confident and less reliant on shock tactics to keep the reader interested.
Its just a pity that the book feels so truncated. I'm not a huge fan of door-step sized novels, but Devereux takes brevity to the other extreme. By the final act he tries to cram so much action into so few pages that, whilst the pace is ferocious, clarity suffers. On several occasions I found myself having to reread large chunks to try and work out precisely what was happening, and even then I felt certain pieces of information had been omitted simply to save space but at the sake of coherence. There's nothing wrong with keep the story moving along, but not when its done at the sake of coherence.
Despite this however, Eagle Rising is still highly enjoyable and I will look forward to Jack's next adventure. Despite his somewhat dubious methods he remains a compelling lead character. Devereux also manages to expand the universe he has created quite nicely, fleshing out some recurring characters he introduced in Hunters Moon and tidying up some ideas that were interesting but didn't quite work last time (such as Jack's boss's pan-dimensional office). It will be especially interesting to see how the relationship between Jack and Miss Marsh develops in light of events during this book.
I just hope that David Devereux gives Jack, Miss Marsh and everyone else more time to breath and the next story the space it deserves. He's a writer with talent and both books have been highly enjoyable. Adding fifty pages to their lenght is not going to harm them and might actually be of benefit overall.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well I read Hunter's Moon a while back and was looking forward to Eagle Rising to see what Jack was going to do to people.
I have to say I enjoyed the book immensely, same page-turning goodness but with extra added character depth and a sneakier plot.
I have to say I enjoyed the book immensely, same page-turning goodness but with extra added character depth and a sneakier plot.
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