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The Wolf at the Door (Hardcover)

by Jack Higgins (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (3 Sep 2009)
  • ISBN-10: 0007320434
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007320431
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,438 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for Jack Higgins: '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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Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins! Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson. Somebody is after them: Blake, Harry Miller, his sister, Monica, Harry Salter and Billy. The only people spared are Roper and Dillon. After surviving a car bomb, Ferguson heads a desperate search to uncover the perpetrator. Not wanting any overt connections with their country, the Russians need the right kind of assassin, better than Carlos the Jackal. When such a man is discovered in a Lubiana prison, he is willing to take on the job as a price for his freedom! An unlikely man, brilliant and terrifying, ingenious and deadly, he is the wolf at the door.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A rather pointless exercise, 23 Sep 2009
By Giles Allison (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This is the sequel to "A Darker Place", which itself wasn't published that long ago. The jacket blurb/plot summary provided above is actually quite misleading. The Russians decide to assassinate most of the members of General Ferguson's team and all this action happens within the first 50 or so pages. The rest of the book is the story of how the attacks were planned, told in flashback. Within this flashback is another flashback which explains the life story of Daniel Holley, the ex-IRA arms runner (i.e. Dillon #2) who the Kremlin tasks with arranging the executions. Consequently, Dillon & co don't feature at all in the majority of the book and there is no Ferguson-led "hunt" for the perpetrators, the fate of all of whom we know by page 50. Anyone expecting the violent deaths of half the team followed by Dillon ruthlessly hunting down those responsible for the rest of the book (and I had hoped) will be disappointed.

Why Mr Higgins decided to structure the book this way is anyone's guess. By having the attacks first and then their background told in flashback, the author robs the book of any real tension and excitement - we know what the outcome of those attacks is (I won't reveal it, but have a guess...) so there is little drama in reading about how they were planned. Holley's back story is Higgins' standard "good guy witnesses something ghastly and so joins the IRA for revenge" template. He is essentially a new Sean Dillon and one wonders whether this book is designed to introduce him up for new adventures. I noted that this time the American president isn't named and there is a hint that Jake Cazelet has finally left office. Other details remain the same as before - everyone spends large amounts of time wearing Zeiss glasses and drinking champagne.

The attacks on Ferguson & co should have been tagged on to the end of "A Darker Place" and the rest of the story dispensed with; maybe that was the original intention before someone suggested spinning it out into a whole new book. I found myself skip-reading the last quarter of the book because it simply wasn't interesting. I kept hoping for a riverting twist in the tale - there is one of sorts, but like most of the denouements in the Sean Dillon series it is all over in the blink of eye and leaves you wondering why it is that all the good guys wear body armour and all the bad guys don't. It's been some years now since Hannah Bernstein was killed off - Jack Higgins really needs to take an axe to some other characters if he wants to keep the Dillon saga going, because as it stands now this series is completely out of steam and devoid of interest. That said, I'm sure I'll read the next one...
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3.0 out of 5 stars wolf at the door, 28 Sep 2009
By Mrs. D. J. Billington "bob" (england) - See all my reviews
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the book was not as good as the other books that i have read
it took some time to get into the story
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jack Higgins "The wolf at the Door", 1 Jan 2010
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My order arrived within a couple of days of ordering,th,excellent service will recommend and undoubtly will use again
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4.0 out of 5 stars Higgins, still one of the best
Higgins has done it again. The plot is good, and as usual is Sean Dillon the best "enforcer".
Published 1 month ago by Poul Thisted Kristensen

2.0 out of 5 stars Wolf at the Door
I found this book to be very disappointing and a most unsatisfactory read. In the first place it is described as the latest Sean Dillon thriller. Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. Weitzman

5.0 out of 5 stars Never miss
Never miss a Sean Dillon. This is a good yarn but not enough of Sean in it. Still up to The Master's standard.
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. Christine Hoyle

5.0 out of 5 stars Jack Higgins . . . is the BEST . . . USA fan
Jack Higgins . . . at the top of his game in the Sean Dillon series . . . thank goodness for Amazon - UK . . . the book won't release in USA till Jan 2010 . . . Read more
Published 3 months ago by JimSartorius

4.0 out of 5 stars Wolf at the Door by Jack Higgins
His best novel for a while. I you've read the last few titles , this one is a MUST.
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