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Your Learning Zone - Rough Justice (Sean Dillon)
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List Price: $25.95
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Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780399155130
ISBN: 0399155139
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-08-19
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Summary: Fantastic! True Sean Dillion thriller.
Comment: Loved it. My husband couldn't wait for me to finish it. I stayed up all night (while I slept) to read it. Fantastic book. I've read all of Jack Higgins books. The Sean Dillion character are my favorite.
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Summary: Thirty years too late
Comment: I was a fan of Higgins back in the 70s but, sadly, in the last twenty years or so he has devolved quite a bit. This book was simply unreadable. He is stuck in the Old Boy school of writing, something like a Boys Own adventure tale with tons of drinking and smoking, no sex, constant conversations where people speak like the English upperclass in the 60's, etc.
And guns? He gets them wrong almost without fail. He talks about a Colt .25 revolver when the .25 was always a semi-auto round. As a round, it was pitiful and almost no one carries it any more. It was inaccurate, unreliable, and had very, very little power. In Higgins' book, however, it generates massive recoil and slams people back when they are shot with it. Oh, and you can point or hip shoot it from across the room right between the eyes of a moving target. There are many, many more gun mistakes made, but that isn't the worst of it.
The worst of it is, simply, every single character has exactly the same "voice." They all sound like upper class Englishmen did around the time Roger Moore played in the TV series "The Saint." It doesn't matter if they are Serbian, Russian, American... they all sound the same and use expressions people haven't used in thirty years.
I haven't even gone into the superhuman shooting skills, acting skills, combat skills, etc. of Dillon regardless of the fact that he (and the other heroes) are never without several drinks in them and a cigarette hanging off their lips.
This is the kind of fantasy writing that was cool in the 60's and early 70's but is now as outdated as an old Carry On film. I threw my copy away after reading two thirds of it. I got tired of cringing.
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Summary: surprisingly good
Comment: I noticed that in the last couple of Dillion novels that he has become such a one dimensional and tired character. I didn't come into this book thinking that it would be that good in fact I thought it was going to be the same ole same ole Dillon novel(and in some ways it could be termed that) but one of the strongest things about this is the fact that Higgins doesn't overuse Dillon in this book as he does the other ones(I think he realized that Dillon is quite tired.)
We are introduced to a relatively new character in this book while not unique to the cast of characters(meaning its a typical Higgin's hero) a cold killer, but with some sense of decency and obviously a good guy, Harry Miller is a totally a breath of fresh air
I also say the plot is quite good in this one. I'd venture to say one of the best in the last few. Not a many threaded plot line and wraps up decently in the end with quite a good ending also. Without giving it away to much, Dillon really shines in the ending(more like the Dillon we used to know, at least when compared to the last few, they stopped being totally awesome when Bad Company came out, than they got kinda old and redundant, but this one is a step in the right direction I feel.
After reading many Higgins novels(40 some) his writing style has not changed(and is not expected to) and that can be a downside I guess. With many many reused phrasings and sayings
i.e he was more tired than he had ever been in his life or more excited than he had been in years
while not overly annoying by any means it can be somewhat redundant at times
so while this is not his best i can still recommend it better than the last that's for sure in fact I will even go as far to say that this is somewhat of a redeeming book for him like I said above a step in the right direction.
Give this one a chance and you might feel the same way as I. However to a newcomer to the series I suggest starting with the first few cause it goes without saying that those were the best Dillons' (as I like to call them)
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Summary: The Master Craft
Comment: Jack Higgins is a Master of Suspense. He is a remarkably talented writer who knows his genre and knows what it takes to keep us fans coming back for another go with a cast of characters we've all come to know in return.
In an age of YOUTUBE and video game storylines it is nice to delve into a well-plotted, well-crafted saga where the terrible demons and dragons come in the shape and form of dangerous men. Also, where the knight in shining armor has more than a few character dents and occasional rust patches.
I am truely enjoying Higgin's latest thriller and think that you will too. If you haven't read any of his books before then you'll be pleased to know the characters have evolved from previous novels and that there is a stack of them waiting for you.
Good reading so turn off the game player and jump into some better action.
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Summary: Better than recent Higgins novels.
Comment: I had almost given up on Jack Higgins. I thought the last couple of novels were predictable and tired. This novel was better. Not great, just better. Let's not go to Ireland in a boat again, shall we? A new character being developed, but sadly does not participate in the finale. The book was good enough for me to read the next one, but just barely.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Intrigue in the halls of power, blood in the streets— the master of suspense returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds.
After almost two score books, Higgins knows how to fire up a thriller,” wrote Publishers Weekly about the author’s latest book, The Killing Ground. “It’s all pure Higgins: almost every shot hits square between the eyes, and all the characters are hard lads indeed.” But none of them harder than the heroes—and villains—of Rough Justice.
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque—or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead.
This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates, including Britain’s Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia. Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is done—from Kosovo to London to Beirut to Ireland to Moscow—there will be plenty of both.
Rich with all the ingredients that have made the author justly admired, Rough Justice is further proof that, in the words of the Associated Press, “When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd—Jack Higgins.”
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