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Summary: Great Author, Great Story
Review: I think this is the best book from the author and defiantly the best book of the series. This is just a good all around book with a good story and a lot of interesting characters. The pace of the book is also very pleasing, it just moves smoothly. I would suggest anyone that is interested in the time frame to pick the book up. You will be pleased you did.
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Summary: SPEECHLESS
Review: NON stop drama, eye-popping, hair raising, hand trembling, one hell of a ride.
BYE IT!
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Summary: Steiner and His Sizzling Silenced Sten Guns
Review: Jack Higgins achieved guy-fiction immortality with this page-turner set in the sleepy English village of Studley Constable. A crack group of German commandos, disguised as Polish paratroopers, are sent on a diabolical suicide mission to assassinate Winston Churchill and otherwise be very nasty. Trouble is, said suicide force is led by a relatively sympathetic anti-hero, Steiner, and assisted by a devious but irresistible IRA operative, Liam Devlin (who can't help himself but seduce one of the local Catholic girls). So try as we might but hate them, our villains have a certain style. When things start going awry, Higgins almost manipulates us into even feeling sorry for them. Almost but not quite, as our dashing Yankee heroes and stalwart Norfolk villagers save the day. Tally-Ho!
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Summary: One of the best books I've ever read!
Review: I read this one a long time ago. It was incredible then. I recently re-read it. It's even more incredible now... Even though I know the plot, the end and have seen the movie...Higgins is a master. Just the idea of kidnapping Churchill in 1943. That probably would have changed the war, if not the outcome.
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Summary: What a ride!
Review: I especially liked the way the author set up the premise and began a flashback. This was another book I could not put down once started. I became particularly fond of Col. Steiner and even began to like Liam Devlin. I find his (Devlin's)last minute escapes a bit overdone and predictable. I intend to read all of his books with high ratings. Having gone through Clancy, WEB Griffin, Stephen Coontz, Harold Coyle, and Bernard Cornwell, I had about given up finding something like this to read. Job well done.
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Summary: Intriguing Stuff by Mr.Higgins.
Review: Of half a dozen books of Mr.Higgins (that I have read), this has to be, beyond any kind of doubt, THE BEST. The plot moves from Germany to England, in a bid to kidnap Winston Chruchil. Fast paced, a page-turn in true sense. Will keep you at the edge of your seats by the unassuming character of a certain Colonel Steiner. Way kool. Classic collectors item. Must read.
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Summary: Half true...half put on. All fun
Review: This is my first, but not my last, Higgins book. He takes us on an exciting, easy to follow adventure through a piece of WWII mostly from the Nazi perspective. The characters are human, and likeable or despicable independently of their political attachments. Higgins' trick of inserting himself into the story added a great aura of authenticity to the story.
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Summary: The Eagle
Review: So who would ever think to write a novel about a squad of German paratroopers trying to kidnap Winston Churchill during WWII? Apparently Jack Higgins did and does a good job of it. We sympathize with the German paratroopers not because we support their cause, but because we see them in a more human light. Colonel Kurt Steiner is only on this apparent suicide mission because he stuck his neck and his career out for a little Jewish girl. The story itself is fast-paced and jumps back and forth between Berlin and Studley Grange and everywhere in between. Higgins has a good plot to begin with but also sidetracks into some other subplots: romance, the English black market and the insanity of Reichsfuhrer Himmler (yes this book does take many shots at the real bad guys). All this combines for an explosive finale with a clever twist. You will certainly enjoy having read this book
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Summary: FANTASTIC !
Review: I could not put this book down. The amazing thing is that it got me rooting for an IRA terrorist and a bunch of Nazis ! Can't wait to see the movie.
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Summary: Excellent on several levels
Review: In November, 1943, 15 German paratroopers under the command of Lt. Colonel Kurt Steiner were dropped along the English coast in Norfolk. Their mission was to kidnap, or kill, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was spending the weekend with the local squire. IRA gunman Liam Devlin, sprung from a Spanish jail by German intelligence, was already on the ground to pave the way for the Germans' arrival. This is one of the best thrillers I've ever read. The book is tense from start to finish. Once the action gets going near the end, it's impossible to put down. I read the last 100 pages in one sitting. All the characters are richly detailed. Liam Devlin is a masterpiece of a tortured soul. Steiner and the rest of the paratroopers shine as professional warriors tarred with the same brush as the government they serve. The interplay between the English villagers and the paras is interesting, because it illuminates how wartime propaganda makes the grey into black and white. If you like thrillers, action, or historical fiction, I recommend this book highly.
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