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Title: Midnight Runner by Jack Higgins, Patrick MacNee ISBN: 0-399-14855-8 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (Audio) Pub. Date: 27 March, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 7 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.21 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great Dillon adventure
Comment: jack Higgins is fantastic. his last two books really blew me away, and now he's back! Some readers of the last two books were somewhat disappointed due to 2d characters and underdeveloped plot...i can assure you, this time he lacks in no department! I am sure you'll find this a return to form.
I myself didn't mind the last books, i thought they were two of his best. fast paced and exciting. Edge of Danger provided some really really compelling characters. And this book continued that trend. it shows us more of Kate rashid, and brings in the excellent Daniel Quinn, who i would love to see again.
The writing is first class. Some writers over-write, too complicated and hard to understand, and some writers underwrite, with oversimplification. But jack higgins gets its absolutely perfect. Sean Dillon is great, and all the other regulars are back with force.
The plot here is good, although i didnt feel it was quite as good as his previous two. there is less action, and it's not quite as fast paced. However, the characters are still strong. I was a bit disappointed with the fact that Kate Rashid wasn't really "after" Dillion, as i had been lead to believe. I was looking forward to a book where the tables had been turned on the heroes and they were now the ones being hunted. Really hunted.
Another quibble...the number of times Higgins mentiond "unleavened bread" and "saville row" suits, really got on my nerves. Does he have to tell us the type of bread every time? Does he only know of one type of suit? (For almost all of the characters, at one point or another in the book, turnbed up wearing a savilel row suit.)
one of the other things i have really loved about this book and the last is the setting. They speed around the globe from the Us to London to the Hazar. the landscape of the hazar really is great, and a perfect setting for a thriller novel.
Something else i rather liked with this novel was that it was slightly hypocrtical of itself. Kate rashid is embarking upon her vendetta due to the fact that Sean Dillion killed her brothers. But then, during the course of this book, the daughter of Daniel Quinn is killed, and then he vows vengeance. They are in exactly the same situation. It seems to say "well, if Quinn can have vengeance, what is wrong with Kate Rashid wanting it too?"
Another interesting point in the past three books has been the way that the character of Billy Salter has grown up. We first (i think) met him in Day of Reckoning, where he was just a slightly naive young lad looking for a good fight to prove himself in. Now, over the course of these books he has really grown up in his attitudes, and it's been fascinating to watch.
This is yet another winner from Jack higgins.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sean Dillon Saves the Day
Comment: This is a sequel to Higgins's thriller, Edge of Danger, in which Kate Rashid, a wealthy, murderous, Arab woman tried to assassinate the American President, but failed and saw her three brothers killed in the attempt. In Midnight Runner, Kate swears vengance on the President and all who foiled her. In the weakest aspect of the plot, the President, with awesone power at his disposal, instead asks Daniel Quinn, a former American Special Forces sergeant, to investigate and derail the all-powerful Kate Rashid. When I read this in the early chapters, I thought, "Oh, no, not another John Wayne type defeating an army of bad guys with one hand. We've seen it in a hundred bad novels and movies." But Higgins is too clever for such banality, and Quinn fizzles into ineffectiveness. It remains for our old friend, Sean Dillon, ex-IRA operative, now with a British spy agency, to go after Kate Rashid and her minions. She plans to bring down the American President by cutting off the major supply of oil to the United States. She also plans to murder everyone, including Sean Dillon, who helped kill her brothers. Dillon, together with his boss, General Ferguson, and other friends, stops her, but it's a big fight. There is plenty of action throughout the book, and the final chapters will keep you turning those pages.
Rating: 3
Summary: an action thriller with no frills
Comment: Jack Higgins is a very well established thriller writer who started writing decades ago in the same vein as Alastair MacLean and Ian Fleming. They wrote with a spare direct language creating scenes of action with minimal words or characterizations. This is quite different than today's character driven novels. Nonetheless, over the decades, his popularity hasn't waned. His latest work, MIDNIGHT RUNNER, continues the story from last year's EDGE OF MIDNIGHT.
Sean Dillan, an ex IRA warrior, in his tenth outing is, once again, pitted against the Rashid family specifically Kate Rashid, the sole heir to the family's fortune. Countess Kate wants to disrupt the stability of the United States economy by disrupting the flow of oil even if it is her oil distribution that is directly affected. The purpose is to discredit President Cazalet's reputation and legacy. With the help of her cousin, Rupert Dauncey, she also wants to enact her revenge on Sean Dillon who is responsible for several deaths in her family. This leads, of course, to an explosive climax as the forces of good and evil clash.
Once again, Jack Higgins remains true to form in creating an action thriller with no frills. Adversaries share dinner and drinks prior to heading to the battlefield. Deaths are, again, dealt with quickly and in a matter-of--fact style. Characters are shallow and lack true depth of feeling. Depiction of locale is a bit flimsy but effective enough for the rapidly paced adrenaline charged plot. The purpose of the Higgins books are simply to entertain and on that level they succeed admirably.
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Title: Edge of Danger by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425182843 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Bad Company by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0399149708 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 30 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Graveyard Shift by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425187365 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Drink With the Devil by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425157547 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: On Dangerous Ground by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425148289 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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