Cold Harbour (Classic Jack Higgins Collection) [Import] [Paperback]

Jack Higgins (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Signet Books; New Ed edition (June 2, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451189825
• ISBN-13: 978-0451189820
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,515,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jack Higgins is among the world's most popular authors. Since the publication of The Eagle Has Landed--one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time--every novel he has written has become an international bestseller, including The White House Connection and Day of Reckoning. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and has been published in thirty-eight languages worldwide. Many of his books have been made into successful movies, among them The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch A King, and The Valhalla Exchange. He lives with his wife on Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Goofey in Places, January 15, 2004

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L. Cary (Little Elm, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Harbour (Dougal Munro & Jack Carter) (Mass Market Paperback)

Buy the book to save the cover. It display a German U-Boat. There's a partial photo of a submarine on the back page. And, each chapter is signaled with a small image of a submarine. So, it's about a submarine, right? Wrong. The only boat in the book is a German E-Boat. The cover designer didn't know the difference between a German U- and an E-boat! :-} One has to wonder how this got past the proof readers!! Meanwhile, the story is fair, but in places it leaves the reader saying, "Naw, that wouldn't happen."

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not being an Editor, I can enjoy a great read..., May 18, 2003

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"birkebeiner" (Kansas City, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Harbour (Audio Cassette)

...and that is precisely what I did with this book. The characters were laid out, then they subtley changed and then yet another twist altered your perception again. I was constantly flipping the pages, ready and as nervous as the characters themselves, to find out what would happen next.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A few too many twists but a solid thriller, August 10, 2004

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J. Carroll "Jack" (Island Heights,NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Harbour (Dougal Munro & Jack Carter) (Mass Market Paperback)

Higgins has pretty much mastered this genre and has been known to "phone a few in, but COLD HARBOUR does a nice job within the confines of Higgins' rather straight forward style. Playing around with the typical conventions of cross channel warfare, identical twins(never a good idea), and a foray into LeCarre territory, a nice thriller emerges. The story does have its flaws with a rather obvious villain and a few too many twists to hold onto the realism that Higgins generally strives for but overall it works its way to its inevitable conclusion effectively. Other than the ridiculous cover on this paperback, as astutuely mentioned by another reviewer-a U-Boat which has nothing to do with this tales of an E-Boat and espionage, this one's a rather nice page turner and not bad for a quick thriller to fill in on the plane trip or at the beach.