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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"Rather like Abbadon's Afterblight Chronicles, these stories are never going to be eligible for the Nobel Prize for Literature, but they're fun, unpolitically correct adventure tales that keep you turning the pages." (DREAMWATCH )
"If anyone ever took Harry Potter, brainwashed him mercilessly till he lost that amiable do-gooder attitude, combat trained him to the standards of Andy McNab and threw in a few painful S&M experiences, you'd probably end up with Jack, David Devereux's uncompromising lead character in Eagle Rising. A gritty spy thriller dripping with magic and oozing with gore." (Sandy Auden SFX )
"If anyone ever took Harry Potter, brainwashed him mercilessly till he lost that amiable do-gooder attitude, combat trained him to the standards of Andy McNab and threw in a few painful S&M experiences, you'd probably end up with Jack, David Devereux's uncompromising lead character in Eagle Rising. A gritty spy thriller dripping with magic and oozing with gore." (Sandy Auden SFX )
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David Devereux is 35 and a professional exorcist. His non-fction debut, MEMOIRS OF AN EXORCIST was published by Andre Deutsch in 2006. He has also written radio comedy scripts. When not wriitng he enjoys the Songs of Noel Coward, cinema, art and walking. And the occasional drink.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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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.... Read more ›
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.... Read more ›
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.... Read more ›
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.... Read more ›
By MrsT
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I bought this for my teenage daughter. She rates it really highly and classes it as one of her favourite books.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Bad Hedgehog
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.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A. M. Roose
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I read the back of this book and took a risk. Glad I did as I ended up loving it so much I read it in a couple of days. Went out and brought the second book "Hunters Moon". The main charactor is the way I like them hard and an arse. This book wont disappoint. Harry Potter with Balls.
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