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The Iron Tiger
Before the sun can set on Jack Drummond’s career as a pilot in the British Navy, he must complete one final flight—a weapons drop over Tibet to aid guerilla fighters in their border dispute with the Red Chinese. But before he can complete the job, his plane and supplies are burned, stranding him in the Himalayas. Now, with his plane grounded, he must deliver a Tibetan leader’s son to safety over land. With the advancing Chinese enemy hot on his heels, Drummond’s final mission becomes a suspense-filled struggle for survival across the world’s most rugged terrain. But first he must uncover the truth behind the murderous conspirators—before they can kill him.
185 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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Jack Higgins
484 books1,283 followersThere is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Jack Higgins was best known of the many pseudonyms of Henry Patterson. (See also Martin Fallon, Harry Patterson, Hugh Marlowe and James Graham.)
He was the New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy thrillers, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Patterson grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a child, Patterson was a voracious reader and later credited his passion for reading with fueling his creative drive to be an author. His upbringing in Belfast also exposed him to the political and religious violence that characterized the city at the time. At seven years old, Patterson was caught in gunfire while riding a tram, and later was in a Belfast movie theater when it was bombed. Though he escaped from both attacks unharmed, the turmoil in Northern Ireland would later become a significant influence in his books, many of which prominently feature the Irish Republican Army. After attending grammar school and college in Leeds, England, Patterson joined the British Army and served two years in the Household Cavalry, from 1947 to 1949, stationed along the East German border. He was considered an expert sharpshooter.
Following his military service, Patterson earned a degree in sociology from the London School of Economics, which led to teaching jobs at two English colleges. In 1959, while teaching at James Graham College, Patterson began writing novels, including some under the alias James Graham. As his popularity grew, Patterson left teaching to write full time. With the 1975 publication of the international blockbuster The Eagle Has Landed, which was later made into a movie of the same name starring Michael Caine, Patterson became a regular fixture on bestseller lists. His books draw heavily from history and include prominent figures—such as John Dillinger—and often center around significant events from such conflicts as World War II, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Patterson lived in Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
Jack Higgins was best known of the many pseudonyms of Henry Patterson. (See also Martin Fallon, Harry Patterson, Hugh Marlowe and James Graham.)
He was the New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy thrillers, including The Eagle Has Landed and The Wolf at the Door. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, Patterson grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As a child, Patterson was a voracious reader and later credited his passion for reading with fueling his creative drive to be an author. His upbringing in Belfast also exposed him to the political and religious violence that characterized the city at the time. At seven years old, Patterson was caught in gunfire while riding a tram, and later was in a Belfast movie theater when it was bombed. Though he escaped from both attacks unharmed, the turmoil in Northern Ireland would later become a significant influence in his books, many of which prominently feature the Irish Republican Army. After attending grammar school and college in Leeds, England, Patterson joined the British Army and served two years in the Household Cavalry, from 1947 to 1949, stationed along the East German border. He was considered an expert sharpshooter.
Following his military service, Patterson earned a degree in sociology from the London School of Economics, which led to teaching jobs at two English colleges. In 1959, while teaching at James Graham College, Patterson began writing novels, including some under the alias James Graham. As his popularity grew, Patterson left teaching to write full time. With the 1975 publication of the international blockbuster The Eagle Has Landed, which was later made into a movie of the same name starring Michael Caine, Patterson became a regular fixture on bestseller lists. His books draw heavily from history and include prominent figures—such as John Dillinger—and often center around significant events from such conflicts as World War II, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Patterson lived in Jersey, in the Channel Islands.
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September 28, 2024
“On a stone hearth in the centre, a fire of yak dung burned brightly and an old Tibetan woman was crumbling brick tea into a cauldron of boiling water.”
Jack Drummond, an involuntary retiree from the British Navy, now makes his living as a mercenary gun-runner, a smuggler to order if you will, following the money he needs to live and prepare a dubious retirement. One last mission is in the cards delivering weapons to Tibetan guerillas in their hot/cold struggle against the Chinese Communists. But that idea goes down in literal flames when his plane, such as it is, is destroyed and Drummond is left with no choice but to help the local head man deliver his ailing son safely across land to the Indian border. The Chinese, including a treacherous turncoat double agent, see the child as a potential symbol that they can groom and use to secure their hold over the area. And it’s clear they’ll take whatever desperate measures are necessary to stop Drummond from delivering the child to safety.
THE IRON TIGER is an interesting, credible, and fast-moving adventure tale that entertains but, frankly, suffers somewhat by comparison to Higgins’ more popular novels such as THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. That said, Higgins is to be commended for providing a progressive female romantic interest in the novel with skills, backbone, some strength, and the determination to set her own path. Well done.
Recommended as an entertaining example of the quasi-military adventure novel typical of the mid 20th century.
Paul Weiss
Jack Drummond, an involuntary retiree from the British Navy, now makes his living as a mercenary gun-runner, a smuggler to order if you will, following the money he needs to live and prepare a dubious retirement. One last mission is in the cards delivering weapons to Tibetan guerillas in their hot/cold struggle against the Chinese Communists. But that idea goes down in literal flames when his plane, such as it is, is destroyed and Drummond is left with no choice but to help the local head man deliver his ailing son safely across land to the Indian border. The Chinese, including a treacherous turncoat double agent, see the child as a potential symbol that they can groom and use to secure their hold over the area. And it’s clear they’ll take whatever desperate measures are necessary to stop Drummond from delivering the child to safety.
THE IRON TIGER is an interesting, credible, and fast-moving adventure tale that entertains but, frankly, suffers somewhat by comparison to Higgins’ more popular novels such as THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. That said, Higgins is to be commended for providing a progressive female romantic interest in the novel with skills, backbone, some strength, and the determination to set her own path. Well done.
Recommended as an entertaining example of the quasi-military adventure novel typical of the mid 20th century.
Paul Weiss
January 15, 2023
A little disappointed, but not bad.
After WWII and the Korean War, maybe mid-1950's, an ex-navy pilot, Drummond, is flying missions for India secretly as he makes flights into China while using the cover of flying other missions for India. China invades a small border country, and he and his friend are caught in the middle of it as they also try to rescue a child.
What I liked:
-The first flight at the begging of the book between the mountains was interesting.
-the local descriptions of the region and the city were interesting.
What I didn't like:
-The story seemed to have no punch for me.
-Too many long descriptions.
-It took a long time for any real action.
-Kind of predictable.
-Just wish it had been better.
Well, there you go. Well written, of course, and if you want to go along for the ride and are patient, you do feel like you are in the mountains and in the time.
After WWII and the Korean War, maybe mid-1950's, an ex-navy pilot, Drummond, is flying missions for India secretly as he makes flights into China while using the cover of flying other missions for India. China invades a small border country, and he and his friend are caught in the middle of it as they also try to rescue a child.
What I liked:
-The first flight at the begging of the book between the mountains was interesting.
-the local descriptions of the region and the city were interesting.
What I didn't like:
-The story seemed to have no punch for me.
-Too many long descriptions.
-It took a long time for any real action.
-Kind of predictable.
-Just wish it had been better.
Well, there you go. Well written, of course, and if you want to go along for the ride and are patient, you do feel like you are in the mountains and in the time.
August 12, 2020
Wow, this was just a huge disappointment on so many levels. First, the blurb implies that this is a story of Tibet - which it's not. True, it starts off with one (and only one) nice scene of a British mercenary flying weapons into some Tibetan rebels, and then there's even a twist regarding which side this particular group of rebels are actually fighting for...and then that plot-line and the rebels and Tibet itself all disappear from the story. Like completely, like for the rest of the book.
Instead, Higgins moves "the action" (heavy sarcasm there) to the fictional khanate of Balpur, an unnecessarily made-up "buffer" between India and China, (confusing in itself, as there is a real Balpur in India, but it is deep in Uttar Pradesh and well south of Nepal, much less Tibet). Flying is done now (regardless of the book jacket); the Himalaya are done, all mention of any Tibetan struggle against China is done, to be replaced instead by a plodding, predictable story of getting easily captured, then easily escaping, and then easily crossing some mountains into the waiting arms of India...the whole thing was just so BORING. Oh, and slightly racist too, since all the Chinese are stereotypical villains, and anyone remotely resembling a "local" gets quickly killed off, with only Drummond's one Indian companion among the few survivors, (which otherwise consist of the obligatory beautiful American nurse/platonic love interest, a crusty Irish missionary/doctor, and some McGuffin of a kid they have to get across the border for whatever reason, and who is either unconscious, asleep or otherwise speechless for the whole story).
And then there's the the bad writing, atrocious dialogue...and yet another totally meaningless title! I hate when writers just throw something Asian-y in there - "tiger this" or "dragon that" or "jade whatever." (And it's only as I write this that I realize...hang on, let me check...that yes, some 8-9 years earlier, Higgins wrote another real stinker nominally about Tibet, Year of the - you guessed it - Tiger, which was equally bad and had an equally dumb title...just frickin' lazy. )
Anyway...Somewhere out there is "the great Tibetan spy thriller" waiting to be written, maybe about the CIA training and dropping Khampa tribesmen back into eastern Tibet, or a Civil Air Transport (CAT, forerunner of Air America) black arms flights going down deep in the mountains, something with sword-wielding Tibetan cavalry charging Chinese tanks and heavy artillery...but it definitely ain't gonna come from Jack Higgins. So...still waiting, still looking, with Lionel Davidson's darned good The Rose of Tibet probably coming closer than anything else so far.
IN SUMMARY: needed way more of this:
...and way less of this:
Instead, Higgins moves "the action" (heavy sarcasm there) to the fictional khanate of Balpur, an unnecessarily made-up "buffer" between India and China, (confusing in itself, as there is a real Balpur in India, but it is deep in Uttar Pradesh and well south of Nepal, much less Tibet). Flying is done now (regardless of the book jacket); the Himalaya are done, all mention of any Tibetan struggle against China is done, to be replaced instead by a plodding, predictable story of getting easily captured, then easily escaping, and then easily crossing some mountains into the waiting arms of India...the whole thing was just so BORING. Oh, and slightly racist too, since all the Chinese are stereotypical villains, and anyone remotely resembling a "local" gets quickly killed off, with only Drummond's one Indian companion among the few survivors, (which otherwise consist of the obligatory beautiful American nurse/platonic love interest, a crusty Irish missionary/doctor, and some McGuffin of a kid they have to get across the border for whatever reason, and who is either unconscious, asleep or otherwise speechless for the whole story).
And then there's the the bad writing, atrocious dialogue...and yet another totally meaningless title! I hate when writers just throw something Asian-y in there - "tiger this" or "dragon that" or "jade whatever." (And it's only as I write this that I realize...hang on, let me check...that yes, some 8-9 years earlier, Higgins wrote another real stinker nominally about Tibet, Year of the - you guessed it - Tiger, which was equally bad and had an equally dumb title...just frickin' lazy. )
Anyway...Somewhere out there is "the great Tibetan spy thriller" waiting to be written, maybe about the CIA training and dropping Khampa tribesmen back into eastern Tibet, or a Civil Air Transport (CAT, forerunner of Air America) black arms flights going down deep in the mountains, something with sword-wielding Tibetan cavalry charging Chinese tanks and heavy artillery...but it definitely ain't gonna come from Jack Higgins. So...still waiting, still looking, with Lionel Davidson's darned good The Rose of Tibet probably coming closer than anything else so far.
IN SUMMARY: needed way more of this:
...and way less of this:
September 14, 2020
Unique
I've read a smattering of Higgins' books and this one was new. I liked the uniqueness of the setting - India / China in the 1960's - as well as the characters. Drummond and Hamid and Janet and Father Kerrigan. Large on action, with a bit of introspection... Enjoyed it!
I've read a smattering of Higgins' books and this one was new. I liked the uniqueness of the setting - India / China in the 1960's - as well as the characters. Drummond and Hamid and Janet and Father Kerrigan. Large on action, with a bit of introspection... Enjoyed it!
July 19, 2017
A quick but brilliant
August 5, 2016
What on earth is a nice Quaker girl like you doing in a place like this? This is undoubtedly the first thing that Jack Drummond thinks when he sees Janet Tate. Jack, an ex-navy pilot, a current soldier of fortune, gun runner, and indeed anything that may turn a decent profit, is contracted to take this woman and her charge out of the mountains and back to civilization. The woman standing before him isn’t only beautiful but the pure innocence that radiated from her gives that beauty a fresh, unique quality. He knows that she is returning home from a tour in Vietnam as a missionary and is here to pick up the son of the young son of the ruler of Balpur. The boy suffered a fall from a horse, thus causing his injuries and his only salvation is surgery a Chicago hospital in the United States.
Janet accepts her commission with no forethought and little reserve. Her sole purpose in life is to serve God and improve lives by doing it. When she first sees Jack, he is everything she despises in a man. Ruthless, immoral, and wild, he is the exact figure she has always despised, and yet….. Instead of revulsion, her pulse rises; palms sweat, and stomach rolls as a deep and new desire awakens deep in her body; screaming to get out.
These two souls are caught up in a conflict, not of their making but soon to threat their very lives. Life is hard in the People’s Republic of China. The crops have failed and the people are starving. Peking is desperate for something to placate the populace. The answer lies in winning a paper victory with an iron tiger. Attack the desolate mountain nation of Balpur and reclaim land that was once part of China centuries ago, thus taking the Chinese minds from their empty bellies and filling them with nationalistic pride. This is a war no one knew was coming and even fewer would remember that it has taken place. Jack, Janet, and a ragtag group of survivors and refugees picked up along the way have to traverse the only road (track) over three hundred miles to India. A company of Red Army soldiers is hot on their tails, determined to stop them by any means.
This author doesn’t tell you about exotic, desolate, and dangerous places; he takes you there. You can literally feel the spray of water in your face as you lie sunning next to a secret waterfall. Your arms ache and your fingers burn as you find yourself hanging on for dear life on a granite cliff face hundreds of meters above the valley floor. In short, you don’t merely read, or even observe, but actually, feel and experience the action.
This, like all the Jack Higgins books I’ve read, is a gripping adventure that effortlessly sweeps you away to another time and place; hanging on to each word and each twist of the plot with eyes wide open and knuckles white.
Janet accepts her commission with no forethought and little reserve. Her sole purpose in life is to serve God and improve lives by doing it. When she first sees Jack, he is everything she despises in a man. Ruthless, immoral, and wild, he is the exact figure she has always despised, and yet….. Instead of revulsion, her pulse rises; palms sweat, and stomach rolls as a deep and new desire awakens deep in her body; screaming to get out.
These two souls are caught up in a conflict, not of their making but soon to threat their very lives. Life is hard in the People’s Republic of China. The crops have failed and the people are starving. Peking is desperate for something to placate the populace. The answer lies in winning a paper victory with an iron tiger. Attack the desolate mountain nation of Balpur and reclaim land that was once part of China centuries ago, thus taking the Chinese minds from their empty bellies and filling them with nationalistic pride. This is a war no one knew was coming and even fewer would remember that it has taken place. Jack, Janet, and a ragtag group of survivors and refugees picked up along the way have to traverse the only road (track) over three hundred miles to India. A company of Red Army soldiers is hot on their tails, determined to stop them by any means.
This author doesn’t tell you about exotic, desolate, and dangerous places; he takes you there. You can literally feel the spray of water in your face as you lie sunning next to a secret waterfall. Your arms ache and your fingers burn as you find yourself hanging on for dear life on a granite cliff face hundreds of meters above the valley floor. In short, you don’t merely read, or even observe, but actually, feel and experience the action.
This, like all the Jack Higgins books I’ve read, is a gripping adventure that effortlessly sweeps you away to another time and place; hanging on to each word and each twist of the plot with eyes wide open and knuckles white.
February 1, 2019
I couldn't stop reading this book. I love Jack Higgins novels. The stories just seem to flow so well.
There's fighting and intrigue in India/China and the Khan has no treaty with the Indian security forces, so they're reluctant to come and help.
Jack Drummond has decided to do two more arms runs, then he'll have made enough money to enable him to move on. However, true to form, nothing is ever quite that simple. Drummond finds himself trekking through a heavy thunderstorm, then several snowstorms, accompanying the new Khan, a priest/doctor a young Quaker nurse on her way home from Vietnam and an Indian army officer towards the Indian border and---hopefully---safety.
The enemy are never very far behind, and sometimes catch Drummond and his party. The reader is led to believe that the situation will end badly. However, Jack Higgins always has a few surprises up his sleeve.
There's fighting and intrigue in India/China and the Khan has no treaty with the Indian security forces, so they're reluctant to come and help.
Jack Drummond has decided to do two more arms runs, then he'll have made enough money to enable him to move on. However, true to form, nothing is ever quite that simple. Drummond finds himself trekking through a heavy thunderstorm, then several snowstorms, accompanying the new Khan, a priest/doctor a young Quaker nurse on her way home from Vietnam and an Indian army officer towards the Indian border and---hopefully---safety.
The enemy are never very far behind, and sometimes catch Drummond and his party. The reader is led to believe that the situation will end badly. However, Jack Higgins always has a few surprises up his sleeve.
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December 14, 2019This is the first action/adventure novel I have read. What impressed me most with Iron Tiger was Jack Higgins skill in bringing the landscape to life. The descriptive writing is as powerful as any travel writing I have read, and many passages are dedicated to bringing such a harsh topography to life.
Reading a novel published in the 1960s left me wondering how white, male machismo would be received these days. Jack Drummond is characterised as a gritty determined figure risking his life to escape war and his life-threatening exploits, to have meek out a safer existence for himself. Despite the madness of war, there is a modesty in Jack Drummond, and that modesty is reflected in his silence. It is the perfect environment for the hero with pithy aphorisms and wartime acrobatics to flourish, but Drummond is not like that. For this I was grateful, as it shattered my presumptions and kept me reading.
At times other characters (Hamid, for example) vocally out-shine Jack’s presence. Whether this is a weakness in the character’s structure is debatable. Yet, it is Higgins characterisation of landscape which echoes out as the novel’s strongest voice and it is landscape which casts a dark shadow over each and every character in the novel. I got the impression Jack was well aware of this.
I anticipated that a novel like Iron Tiger would rely on a pacey tempo and I was not let down. It is a book which carries you along not only in its description but in its action also. The dialogue between Jack and Janet is well-written to the point where the characters click and seem oblivious to the war around them.
Reading a novel published in the 1960s left me wondering how white, male machismo would be received these days. Jack Drummond is characterised as a gritty determined figure risking his life to escape war and his life-threatening exploits, to have meek out a safer existence for himself. Despite the madness of war, there is a modesty in Jack Drummond, and that modesty is reflected in his silence. It is the perfect environment for the hero with pithy aphorisms and wartime acrobatics to flourish, but Drummond is not like that. For this I was grateful, as it shattered my presumptions and kept me reading.
At times other characters (Hamid, for example) vocally out-shine Jack’s presence. Whether this is a weakness in the character’s structure is debatable. Yet, it is Higgins characterisation of landscape which echoes out as the novel’s strongest voice and it is landscape which casts a dark shadow over each and every character in the novel. I got the impression Jack was well aware of this.
I anticipated that a novel like Iron Tiger would rely on a pacey tempo and I was not let down. It is a book which carries you along not only in its description but in its action also. The dialogue between Jack and Janet is well-written to the point where the characters click and seem oblivious to the war around them.
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February 12, 2022The eighteenth jack higgins /martin fallon /hugh marlowe /harry patterson /henry patterson novel published in 1966. I think it may have been the first published under the jack Higgins pseudonym. A solid thriller about a pilot/spy smuggling weapons that starts with a little bit of intrigue and introduces the characters and relationships over the first 75 pages and then explodes into high gear for the last 110 pages with a breakneck pace and dramatic chase across the cold and bleak wilderness leading to a satisfying ending. Lots of snow and great atmosphere. Quite similar in some respects to year of the tiger his tenth novel with a rescue and race to the border via truck and horseback over snowy mountains. Very enjoyable.
December 6, 2022
An extremely short thriller from one of the most prolific authors of the genre. This one is set in an annoyingly made-up country nestling between China and India, where the intrepid hero is gun-smuggling for the Tibetans and the Red Chinese are the bad guys (this was the '60s, after all). It's very basic, very fast-paced and very to the point, barely introducing the hero and token heroine before throwing them into a chase narrative through inclement weather and inhospitable terrain. The terse, verb-led prose works in its favour, and if there isn't much in the way of finesse then at least it's never dull.
March 10, 2021
This book as a film would be called an Action suspense drama. It begins with a retired military pilot flying arms to the Tibetan plateau where they attempt to repel the encroaching Chinese. One thing leads to another, and so on all the way through the book.
Higgins uses ornate descriptions and solid characters along with a fast moving and riveting plot.
To me it was a fast read of a "can't-put-it-down"story. In other words, the author really knew how to spin a yarn.
Well worth the time, and it's $0.00 for Amazon Kindle
Higgins uses ornate descriptions and solid characters along with a fast moving and riveting plot.
To me it was a fast read of a "can't-put-it-down"story. In other words, the author really knew how to spin a yarn.
Well worth the time, and it's $0.00 for Amazon Kindle
August 29, 2020
Dated. Written in the 70's, about the Chinese and action on the border with China and India.
Typical Higgins thriller. British soldier of fortune working several gigs. Gun runner as well as spy for British intelligence. Readers of later Higgins thrillers will recognize the character Ferguson from many novels.
Less than 200 pages and many can be skimmed without missing anything important.
Typical Higgins thriller. British soldier of fortune working several gigs. Gun runner as well as spy for British intelligence. Readers of later Higgins thrillers will recognize the character Ferguson from many novels.
Less than 200 pages and many can be skimmed without missing anything important.
January 28, 2023
The Iron Tiger
I am a Jack Higgins fan. I have read most of the Sean Dillon books and, for better or worse, judge his books by this series. That said, this story was well done. The pacing was concise and the back story was well developed. I am lacking in any knowledge of the Chinese versus Indian "conflicts", so appreciated a story where that was at least broached. The action continued from early to literally the last pages. A 4.2 out of 5 rating.
I am a Jack Higgins fan. I have read most of the Sean Dillon books and, for better or worse, judge his books by this series. That said, this story was well done. The pacing was concise and the back story was well developed. I am lacking in any knowledge of the Chinese versus Indian "conflicts", so appreciated a story where that was at least broached. The action continued from early to literally the last pages. A 4.2 out of 5 rating.
July 15, 2025
Sadly, this is my last Jack Higgins book - I've read them all now!
I, like many my age, discovered Jack Higgins on the heels of The Eagle Has Landed - and like many, I have read the entire canon. The Sean Dillon books became quite tiresome, but you could read them in a couple of days, so no harm, no foul.
I wish I could have read them all in order, I would appreciate the rise and fall of his writing career.
I, like many my age, discovered Jack Higgins on the heels of The Eagle Has Landed - and like many, I have read the entire canon. The Sean Dillon books became quite tiresome, but you could read them in a couple of days, so no harm, no foul.
I wish I could have read them all in order, I would appreciate the rise and fall of his writing career.
May 26, 2020
A really quick read with lots of action. (Think Indiana Jones on steroids!) Kinda fun, but not much to it. The wafer-thin plot has Indy (whoops! I mean Jack Drummond!) chaperoning a young prince and a desperately pretty woman across the border between India and China, with Red Chinese soldiers on their tail all the way. Will they make it? (SPOILERS AHEAD) You bet your sweet ass they will!
June 20, 2021
Confusing at times
The book went off in to many directions and at times was confusing. Things seemed to happen without any type of lead in the situation. There were to many details that left you hanging and events happening without explanation. The story got bogged down and I did not like the ending. Not what I would call a thriller. Don't waste your money, not worth $9.99.
The book went off in to many directions and at times was confusing. Things seemed to happen without any type of lead in the situation. There were to many details that left you hanging and events happening without explanation. The story got bogged down and I did not like the ending. Not what I would call a thriller. Don't waste your money, not worth $9.99.
July 17, 2021
Action and Adventure
This is a non stop fast action thriller that twists and turns in five directions besides up and down. You get war and peace ice and snow mountains and mules with the tough rough and ready hills men and warriors
You can laugh and cry and wait for the next shot to be fired
But you won’t want to stop reading for even a minute
This is a non stop fast action thriller that twists and turns in five directions besides up and down. You get war and peace ice and snow mountains and mules with the tough rough and ready hills men and warriors
You can laugh and cry and wait for the next shot to be fired
But you won’t want to stop reading for even a minute
December 20, 2022
A typical jack Higgins book. It lives up to the standard you expect from him. I think it would have been better with a little more insight into the war between China and India. The main protagonist Jack Drummond seemed a little cardboard. A decent fast paced story, but not enough depth for my taste. Average read at best.
2 stars 😕 🇨🇳🇮🇳
2 stars 😕 🇨🇳🇮🇳
October 23, 2023
I thought the trek through the snow, ice, and rain was too long. I noticed two typos: Page 73, "Hamid poured coffee into a plastic cup and handed it to hen ..." (should be her) and page 256, "Drummond ducked under the flailing weapon, grabbed for the throat and lifted a knee into the man's crutch ... (should be crotch).
It was educational to read about another area of the world.
It was educational to read about another area of the world.
January 16, 2018
This was an entertaining piece of fiction. The author does a good job of spinning a story and keeping the pages turning. After everything that had happened, before, the ending felt a little rushed. But it was a mostly satisfying escape.
April 9, 2018
Really enjoyed this book. I would have liked to know how the main characters ended up. It ended to abruptly. But I still recommend you read it. I think jack Higgins has a beautiful writing style. I feel I am right there in the country he is writing about.
April 6, 2019
Worth reading again
This is the second time I have read this. I enjoyed it as much as I did the first. Mr. Higgins packs plenty of action in all his books and he did the same this time. An enjoyable and quick read.
This is the second time I have read this. I enjoyed it as much as I did the first. Mr. Higgins packs plenty of action in all his books and he did the same this time. An enjoyable and quick read.
September 29, 2020
Adventure
Wonderful and exciting read. Geographic descriptions take you right into the environment with the main characters and the action scenes have you on the edge of your seat. Couldn’t put it down until I finished. Jack Higgins doesn’t disappoint.
Wonderful and exciting read. Geographic descriptions take you right into the environment with the main characters and the action scenes have you on the edge of your seat. Couldn’t put it down until I finished. Jack Higgins doesn’t disappoint.
October 5, 2020
A Good Read
Probably not Jack Higgins greatest novel, but ranks right up there. He is a fantastic storyteller. The characters fairly jump out at you. If you have not read a Jack Higgins novel, you are really missing out on a great author.
Probably not Jack Higgins greatest novel, but ranks right up there. He is a fantastic storyteller. The characters fairly jump out at you. If you have not read a Jack Higgins novel, you are really missing out on a great author.
November 5, 2020
A good adventure story
I enjoyed this book. Good story with a satisfying ending. Jack Higgins weaves great stories which are very believable. Lots of good personal characters and great interactions. Recommend this one
I enjoyed this book. Good story with a satisfying ending. Jack Higgins weaves great stories which are very believable. Lots of good personal characters and great interactions. Recommend this one
March 15, 2021
Average for Higgins
I usually like Higgins' books especially Sean Dillon, but this one was really just so-so . more of a survival story. I really wanted and expected a plot line similar to the Dillion series type book.
I usually like Higgins' books especially Sean Dillon, but this one was really just so-so . more of a survival story. I really wanted and expected a plot line similar to the Dillion series type book.
April 25, 2021
YAWN...
Jack Higgins is a terrific mystery\action writer, and I truly have enjoyed several of his books, but this one is not one that I would recommend... It started out strong but got bogged down in the middle and became tiresome with the lengthy chase scene. Not a classic Higgins novel.
Jack Higgins is a terrific mystery\action writer, and I truly have enjoyed several of his books, but this one is not one that I would recommend... It started out strong but got bogged down in the middle and became tiresome with the lengthy chase scene. Not a classic Higgins novel.
May 11, 2021
Good read, which is what you expect from Jack Higgins
I chose this book because you can always count on a good story, well written. I needed a break from the reading I had been doing and this filled the bill as I expected it to.
I chose this book because you can always count on a good story, well written. I needed a break from the reading I had been doing and this filled the bill as I expected it to.
July 25, 2021
exciting and an easy read.
Typical story from an always talented another. kudos for a great adventure with very personable characters.
recommend for both the history lesson and the plot.
Typical story from an always talented another. kudos for a great adventure with very personable characters.
recommend for both the history lesson and the plot.
November 3, 2023
mountain adventure
Fast paced thriller involving man versus man, man versus nature and man versus himself. The character must push themselves past normal limits to survive. Will they do it? Or will time really out?
Fast paced thriller involving man versus man, man versus nature and man versus himself. The character must push themselves past normal limits to survive. Will they do it? Or will time really out?
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