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Title: Sheba by Jack Higgins, Patrick MacNee ISBN: 0-7871-0225-3 Publisher: Audio Literature Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: mediocre at best
Comment: This is very average fiction from Jack Higgins, a writer who is capable of delivering better. He simply doesn't do much with Sheba, and the reader comes away disappointed overall.
Rating: 2
Summary: Just didn't have the right stuff to end it
Comment: Higgins had all the right ingredients - 1. Archeological background that dated to the days of King Solomon. 2. Nazi plot to assault the Suez Canal to show Britain her determination after taking Poland 3. Beautiful woman in search of her missing British archaelogist who had earlier went off in search for the legendary Temple of Sheba 4. An archaeologist-mercenary-smuggler Yank who is like Indiana Jones gone native 5. A beautiful smart mixed-blooded businesswoman who liked nothing better but meddle in affairs of other people, always accompanied by a hulk of an escaped slave with a life-debt (think Chewbacca) 6. A host of desertmen, Arabs, throw in even a German professor and Greek moneyman
Then it all started to go wrong. Using the title "Sheba", what could have been a pulp 30s adventure in the mysterious Orient just didn't turn out. Higgins had the ingredients but just didn't know how to produce the right product. Such a mystical name, Sheba, didn't deserve the ignominious treatment Higgins dished out.
It's acceptable that the characters didn't have the same depth and complexity as Macbeth by Shakespeare. It's pulp fiction. It's fine that the Nazi plot failed, we know anyway that the Suez wasn't destroyed in WW2. But we also know the Germany didn't win and Churchchill wasn't kidnapped (or was he?) and these didn't detract from his other works, including the famed "The Eagle has landed".
It would have been better if Higgins had collaborated with another writer who knows how to use the ingredients better.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Adventure
Comment: This was an almost perfect adventure. To have been written almost forty years ago, it still stands up. Keep in mind this novel was written almost twenty years before Indiana Jones. Makes you think maybe ole Jack Higgins influenced the creators of the famous archaeologists....
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Title: The Khufra Run by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425184250 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: On Dangerous Ground by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425148289 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Thunder Point by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425143570 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Angel of Death by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425152235 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Drink With the Devil by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425157547 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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