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    Bad Company
    Bad Company
    Bad Company
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    Bad Company

    Written by Jack Higgins

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    An edge-of-your-seat, white-knuckle thrill ride from the master of suspense

    Baron Max von Berger was once a young aide to Hitler himself, and in the declining days of World War II, was entrusted with Hitler’s diary. Over the years, von Berger has amassed immense wealth and power due to the diary and its secrets, including creating an alliance with the Rashid family, the sworn enemies of Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson.

    As the diary’s secrets begin to be revealed, Dillon and Johnson know they must jump back into the fray with the Rashid family and with von Berger. The secrets inside threaten to destroy the US presidency, unless Dillon can get to the diary first.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2014
    ISBN9781480525030
    Author

    Jack Higgins

    Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.

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    • 5/5
      Well, I thought it was great. I don't agree with the former commentators, I found it a piece well woven into the series.
      It tied up stories that could have been left hanging while giving new characters a place to be seen.
      Jack and Michael are a great team for my listening enjoyment. :)
    • 3/5
      A typical Higgins work with the whole company of characters. The story is a real stretch which suggests Higgins might need a break.
    • 2/5
      If I was so inclined it would be possible to review this novel using a single cheesy line from the very book I'm now writing about: "It's like a bad novel, the whole thing." That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this title, but nonetheless I shall expand below.This current plot arc started with the Rashid Family in "Edge of Danger" two books ago, some unbearably bad judgement and an epic plot hole saw the arc extend into "Midnight Runner", the entire book of which was spent trying to fix the bad judgement exhibited in the prior book (we all know that if we attempt to assassinate the US President but then our family dies the authorities will let us go with sympathy, right? right?).Well, continuing on with the epic plot holes "Bad Company" introduces us to Baron Max von Berger who was been a silent partner of the Rashid Family all this time to the tune of two billion dollars. However, despite the Rashid Family attempts at destroying the world oil markets, conspiring to assassinate a US president and various other nefarious activities such as arms smuggling and what not, no one, anywhere, in the US Government nor UK Government security services bothered to run a simple computer check on the company Rashid Investments until this book... then oh what do you know there's a silent partner. We then continue the utterly ludicrous bad judgement and let Baron Max von Berger get away with his plans for awhile before a climax in a castle in Germany. Oh, and Hitler's missing diary is involved in what seems a bad Clive Cussler-esque attempt at tying current action to past events, but it's never really used per se just hangs around at the edges of the story as apparent motivation for them to chase Baron Max von Berger down because being a part of a conspiracy to corner the world oil markets and arms smuggling is apparently A-OK.Deeply unimpressive novel with an even more uninspiring plot that the last two novels.
    • 2/5
      Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Jack Higgins was one of the best thriller writers in the business. He had a lean, vigorous style (probably learned writing 200-page paperback originals in the 1960s) and a gift for offbeat plots and unusual heroes--the most memorable of whom was Irish gunman-poet Liam Devlin, featured in "The Eagle Has Landed." Nearly twenty years on, Higgins is well past his literary prime, and "Bad Company" is sad proof of it.Another installment in the seemingly endless, increasingly repetitive story of IRA gunman turned British agent Sean Dillon, "Bad Company" puts the series' stock company of characters through their desultory paces with little imagination and less wit. Dillon, an interesting character in his first few appearances in the 1990s, has become progressively less so with every subsequent outing. The rough edges have been sanded off his character, the darkness bleached out of his soul, and he has--even by the loose standards of thriller fiction--become boringly invincible.The first fifty pages--a long slab of WWII back story involving the principal villain--are the best in the book After that, regular readers of the series will feel that they've heard it all before and new readers will wonder what all the fuss was about.
    • 1/5
      what rubish !I started this book thinking it will soon pick after a slow start,but as it went on it got more and more contrived.The dialogue is dire and the ending witch was a struggle to get to was laughable.