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The Valhalla Exchange
On the 30th of April, 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going?Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi administration was falling apart. But one man, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's secretary and ?m...more
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December 15th 2009
by Brilliance Audio
(first published 1996)
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The Valhalla Exchange was originally published in 1977 under a Higgins pseudonym. In this 1996 resurrection it makes no difference because the novel’s events occur in 1945 and it is none the worse for wear. Missing are those awkward moments in stories of “present day’ where the reader wonders why the characters don’t use a cell phone or check the DNA.
Nonetheless, because Higgins wrote the novel some thirty years ago (and perhaps the reason behind the nom de plume), the story has a ...more
Nonetheless, because Higgins wrote the novel some thirty years ago (and perhaps the reason behind the nom de plume), the story has a ...more
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airport layover victims, WWII fanfic admirers, Anglophiles
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Jack Higgins may write paperback thrillers that seem out of place if they're displayed anyplace other than in an airport gift shop, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's deserving of the position.
What makes this shoot-em-up different from other fanciful yarns spun out to be untold tales of World War II is the characters. The story itself is a little formulaic and forgettable, but no worse than anything Dan Brown might come up with. And while Higgins' protagonists are trading card ...more
What makes this shoot-em-up different from other fanciful yarns spun out to be untold tales of World War II is the characters. The story itself is a little formulaic and forgettable, but no worse than anything Dan Brown might come up with. And while Higgins' protagonists are trading card ...more
For a start I found the entire thing a little confusing and in comparision to other books I have read it doesnt stack up too well. I thought there were a little too many characters with similar names (schmidt, schenk etc) and although I did enjoy the last 150 or so pages of it and read thorugh them fairly fast, I have to give the novel on a whole 3 stars because I just didnt enjoy it as much as other books.
This book was a little hard to follow at times but had a very interesting story line. I would so much love to know what was actually true and what was fiction. Just for fun, I'm gonna choose to believe it was all true. Why not?
Older novel taken from a real WWII event. (I was actually looking for the story of the real event.) It was a reminder of the 60's-70's genre and a fun, quick rainy day read.
Fact or fiction ... good story, good twists, interesting ending. Worth the read or the listen in my case.
meh. sounds more exciting than it winds up being.
A great story.Interesting implications.
Nice quick read!
Audio book. Good. Typical Higgins. Broke it up into four or five runs. Listened to most of it on one long run. Got back to it over a week later and had forgotten a lot of the characters.
I thought this book was a bit boring. I read it while waiting for my plane at the airport and I finished it within the time it took my plane to board. It is a short book and I did end up finishing it so I suppose it wasn't all that bad but definitely not that good either.
Great book for Historical Fiction. Superb! Good read.
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