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Title: The Keys of Hell by Jack Higgins, Christian Rodska ISBN: 1-59007-305-3 Publisher: New Millennium Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, not great
Comment: Jack Higgins has certainly given us another of his high-powered action thrillers. The pace is so quick, the plot twists like a snake, the writing is taut and to the point. All good things.
However, even though the characters are likeable, they are not parituclarly developed. That, I feel, is often Higgins's letdown. He gets so wrapped up in the action that he forgets to give his characters deep personalities. Instead, we just see snapshots of people who, really, could be any hero from any thriller novel. All he really does is gives his characters names and then inserts those names into the story. The characters are just there to keep the plot moving along. The problem is that practically all the people in this novel are interchangeable with those of another. For example, Chevasse shares almost exactly the same personality traits as Sean Dillon. As does Liri, who is Jack Higgins's typical lead woman. they are all the same, in all his novels. Their names and pasts just change.
That said, this is still a very good book. The pace never lets up, it's a pageturner and it's quick. If you like a good action thriller and don't particulalry mind about characters, then this is the book for you. (Even if the margins on the English edition are ridiculously big.)
Rating: 2
Summary: The Keys of Shallow
Comment: The Keys of Hell was very shallow when it came to charicter development. The action was good and the discriptions of events were good, but beyond that there was nothing. It seems like he's trying to just write another book like another essay for a high schooler, not putting any thought into it and just focusing on the basics. Higgins is capable of a lot better, as shown with the Flight of Eagles. Two stars for plot and discription of events, and nothing else.
Rating: 5
Summary: Features super-spy Paul Chevasse on a high-risk mission
Comment: The Keys Of Hell is an unabridged, action-packed audiobook thriller by Jack Higgins and features super-spy Paul Chevasse on a high-risk mission to find and take out a double agent in the isolated republic of Albania. But someone has set a deadly trap for him - someone who holds the "keys of hell" - and completing his mission will take far more than a cool head and cold blood. Skillfully narrated by twenty-year career British theater and radio play actor Christian Rodska, The Keys Of Hell is an tale so engrossing that listening to it makes time fly -- and leads to an eager expectation of the next New Millennium Audio edition of a Jack Higgins thriller. 4 hours, 4 cassettes.
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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: The Graveyard Shift by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425187365 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: In the Hour Before Midnight by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425176312 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: East of Desolation by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0425161021 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: SEASON IN HELL : SEASON IN HELL by Jack Higgins ISBN: 0671725319 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 15 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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