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Day of Judgment

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'BREAK HIM. IT'S ALL THERE'S TIME FOR....'
1963. On the eve of Kennedy's historic visit to berlin, Ulbright's
commissars plan their propaganda counter-strike from the red side of the
Wall.
Inside the inpregnabler fortress of Scholss Neustadt lies Father Sean
Conlin, survivor of Dachau and lifelong apostle of human freedom. His jailers
must make him admit to being a CIA hireling in the vital munutes when the
whole world is watching....
The west is determined to save him. Racing against time, gambling with
their own survival, a small band of intrepid men take on a rescue mission
that could sway the course of history.

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This is the greates book I have ever read, every one who has liked Jack Higgins books will love this book, I also would suggest the book Bad Company which was also a fabulous novel.

Jack Higgins is a reliable, workmanlike author who cranked out a score or more books like this back in the 70's and 80's. Starting with "The Eagle Has Landed" (hereafter "Eagle"), he wrote like a factory, producing a great many almost identical thrillers, only a few of which really measured up to "Eagle". This book, "Day of Judgement", is a work that, in my opinion, meassures up to, and in some waays surpasses "Eagle". Set at the height of the Cold War, "Day of Judgement's" plot focuses on an East German effort to deflect the impact of US President John F. Kennedy's forthcoming visit to Berlin, where history tells us he made his electrifying "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. The East Germans want to nullify the projected effect of Kennedy's visit, so they kidnap a beloved Roman Catholic priest and try to "brainwash" him into making anti-US statements.. Great character development, excellent pacing, a very plausable series of events and a suprisingly spiritual resolution of the story add up to an all-around great read. I recommend this book highly.

This book by Jack Higgins,(as well as the Dougal Munro series and Storm Warning)grabs your attention and doesn't let it go. Highly enjoyable, if that is your goal in fiction reading! I know JH books aren't for everyone: they are often quick on the description and huge amounts of plot fly by in a chapter, but nobody writes like him. This story, that takes place in East Germany before Kennedy visits Berlin in 1963, is a little far fetched, but I find myself preferring Higgin's books to some thrillers where if the unnecessary description were 'squeezed' out, the book would be reduced by half! I do enough fact based scientific and medical reading for my work; away from that I need escapism and JH provides this with some interesting charactors and locations. If you are obsessed with detailed fact in FICTION, then so be it. But I like the exciting, unlikely thriller plots of Higgin's.....they're more enjoyable

I have read this book at least twice now and it holds up to the test of time. The magnificent faith of the character Sean Conlin and others in this story inspires me every time I read it. Besides that, great story! Although, I do have to say that the hard-bitten, I'm-just-waiting-for-death-so that-all-this-suffering-is-over hero is getting a little old.

You will not be disapointed at all! I wasn't! Great plotting!

If it wasn't my tenacious nature, I couldn't have finished the book!