Bad Company (Higgins, Jack) - Hardcover

Higgins, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399149708 ISBN 13: 9780399149702

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2003

Synopsis

When Hitler's secret diary resurfaces, revealing an armistice between the United States and Germany that plotted to join forces against the Soviet Union, the current present's integrity comes into question, prompting White House operative Blake John to secure the diary and keep it hidden. 250,000 first printing.

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Review:

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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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

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0399149708
• ISBN 13: 9780399149702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287