Bad Company: 11 (Sean Dillon) - Softcover

Higgins, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 042519521X ISBN 13: 9780425195215

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004

Synopsis

Jack Higgins's previous novels Edge of Danger and Midnight Runner put British intelligence agent Sean Dillon through "a lot of thrills [and] wild action" (Los Angeles Times). Now a new enemy has emerged with a dark secret from World War II--and a score to settle with agent Dillon.

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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

"A seasoned pro...Mr. Higgins knows how to tell a story!"--The New York Times Book Review

"Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

"When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd--Jack Higgins."--Associated Press

"Higgins makes the pages fly."--New York Daily News

"Jack Higgins is one of the best-selling authors of popular fiction in the world, often considered the architect of the modern thriller."--The Huffington Post

"Higgins is an author with the creative power to hook the reader and keep them forever because of his terrific tales. There are many villains out there, but Higgins is by far the greatest at bringing to life the best and worst of them all."--Suspense Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 042519521X
• ISBN 13: 9780425195215
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304