Day of Reckoning [Mass Market Paperback]

Jack Higgins (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Unknown (2002)
• ASIN: B00161DZB8
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (84 customer reviews)

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.

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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One Book Too Many, April 3, 2000

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Malcolm Vineberg "Mal" (Walnut Creek, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Day of Reckoning (Hardcover)

I must preface my remaks with two facts. First I have read every one of Jack Higgins books and two I always buy them when they come out, I don't wait for the deep discount.

That being said, Mr Higgins has always written wonderful adventure books without the need for graphic sexual descriptions or terrible violance, just what was needed to make the plot work. I am by far no prude I love descriptive books.

Day of Reckoning is so sad. Here is an author who has had it all. He should have quit period. He lumps all the characters from his previous book into a series of impossible plots. They happen so fast that they make no sense. Had I not read his other books all these characters would be meaningless, he introduces them with, I guess, the premises that the reader has read all his books. There are so many new characters that the reader can't remember who goes with what. Irish, English, Maffia, American, Arab, Jew and so forth. They just keeping turning up.

The saddest is the lack of skill in the plot and the horrible dialogue that is all through the book. You get the impression that he wants it over, I don't blame him. Who could not figure out who wins and who loses in each mini adventure. One "hero" gets shot in the arm other then that the good guys always win.

The first chapter doesn't make sense in relation to the book. Why is it there?

Please don't waste your money and encourge Mr Higgins to write any more. For me it is like losing an old friend.

I saw how fast it hit the best seller list and his name was what did that not the book. That is the advantage of fame, it's too bad he used his to sell this disaster. I am sure that his reputation was the mittigating factor with his publisher.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sean Dillon to the rescue (again!), March 17, 2000

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Frank J. Konopka (Shamokin, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Day of Reckoning (Hardcover)

I call this type of book "popcorn for the mind", a refreshing mental interlude between my reading of weightier tomes. It requires no mental effort, just page turning every minute or so, to race along with the plot. It's not great literature, but I don't think Mr. Higgins intends it to be, he simply wants to entertain his audience, and to me, that's what he does! More of Dillon and Co., please!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, but not Higgins at his best., March 23, 2000

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Matt Harm - See all my reviews

This review is from: Day of Reckoning (Hardcover)

After reading all of Higgins' books, and enjoying especially the ones including Dillon and his comrades. I found that his last several books about the ex-terrorist seem merely to be continuations of his previous Dillon thrillers. DAY OF RECKONING seems to be a mere continuation of his previous books. When reading the books in order I felt as if I was just going from one chapter to another. His most recent books have seemed to lack the originality of his earlier Dillon editions. I am a big Jack Higgins fan, and will always be. This book is not bad, it is just too similar to his previous ones. There are only so many different terrorist situations to write about, and in two of Higgins' previous books, Dillon has already taken on the Mafia. It would be neat however if Higgins wrote about Dillon back in the day when he was an IRA gunman and/or an international terrorist. Overall, I would suggest reading this book if you enjoy a good old-fashioned thriller.