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Title: Flight of Eagles by Jack Higgins, Patrick MacNee ISBN: 0-7871-1707-2 Publisher: Dove Books Audio Pub. Date: April, 1998 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (62 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A good World War II yarn about twin brother fighter pilots.
Comment: Flight of Eagles, by Jack Higgins,1998, Putnam Pub, New York,Hardcover, 336 pp., $17.47 U.S. (from Amazon.com)
"In the early days of World War II, brothers Max and Harry Kelso--born in the U.S. shortly after the first world war to a German war nurse mother and an American fighter ace father--find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. For it seems that forces much greater than they have set into motion an intrigue so devious, so filled with peril, that it will require that they question everything they know, all that they hold most dear. A new thriller by the author of The President's Daughter."
Jack Higgins, who also writes under his real name, Harry Patterson, is a real yarn spinner. Among others, he gave us the 1975 best seller, The Eagle Has Landed. He reminds me of another author whom I knew personally, named R. Wright "Bobby" Campbell, who wrote The Spy Who Sat and Waited.
Both men were high school dropouts, with interesting backgrounds. Higgins' background includes the military, circus roustabout, laborer, and truck driver before he went to college and became a teacher and author.
Bobby Campbell, who lived in Carmel, California when I knew him, would sit across a restaurant table from you and spin a story. He was a natural-born story-teller, and seemingly couldn't help himself.
Another fiction writer of the same ilk was the late Louis L'Amour. He also had a background as a roustabout, truck driver, merchant seaman, prize-fighter and other such jobs, which enabled him to know about life close up and personal.
After all, before you can write convincingly, you need some life experience, and the best of them seem to spend years participating in life before they begin to write about it. But I remember asking Bobby Campbell once how much time he had spent in the Orkneys (the islands North of Scotland) in order to write with such authority about the people and their customs, whom he described so well in The Spy Who Sat and Waited.! He laughed, and said he got everything he needed in the way of research from the encyclopedia.
That will only work, though, for someone who has lived a lot, and observed people closely in their griefs, sorrows, joys, loves and hates. Fiction is an art form, unlike report writing or editorial writing. Not everyone can do it, and of those who can, not all are equal. Jack Higgins is truly one of the master story-tellers.
His protagonists are convincingly drawn, and his plots seem believable even when they are far-fetched. In this one, the Nazis want to assassinate Eisenhower. In The Eagle Has Landed, it was Churchill they were after.
This is good fiction. He works in real people, like Bubi Hartmann, the top-scoring German fighter ace of World War II, and Adolph Galland, who was their highest scoring ace in the Battle of Britain, and who eventually became their chief of fighters. The last I heard, both were still alive.
Higgins weaves a good tale, and you should enjoy this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: A gripping flight through the last great war!
Comment: Jack Higgins' latest adventure carries you from the present into the dark depths of the air war in europe during World War Two. The story is a both gripping and touching tale of twin brothers: Max and Harry Kelso, raised through childhood together in post WWI America but seperated as Max is taken to Germany with his mother, the Baroness Elsa von Hadler after the death of their American father. Both begin seperate lives but share their common love of aviation and of a small teddy bear named Tarquin. Max assumes his rightful title as the Baron von Hadler and rapidly becomes a fearsome fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe as the world goes to war once more. Meanwhile, his brother Harry Kelso pursues the same occcupation when he travels overseas to join in the european conflict as an ace fighter pilot on the side of the Allies at the war's inception. Both twist and turn through a series of harrowing battles and adventures but are continously crossing paths in many ways as the war progresses on. Always mindful of each others achievements and predicaments across the lines they are brought together once again and unwittingly at first, drawn into a wicked plot by Nazi leaders that may force them to betray both sides and threatens to destroy everything they love. The reader is held by tension to the very end with a surprise twist via a personal note by Jack Higgins.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good Story
Comment: This is a really good story that will keep you interested and wondering until the end.
Wonderful twists and turns... just when you think you have figured it out... here comes another. Holds the readers interest until the end.
most enjoyable and entertaining.
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Title: The Eagle Has Flown by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0671746693 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425177181 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 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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Title: Thunder Point by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425143570 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1994 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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