Customer Reviews

The Khufra Run

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When the brillance of an author explodes off of the first page, you hesitate for a moment and ask if you have the courage to continue. Simple understanding of the complex twists that surround this emotional joy ride of black comedy and unrelenting action will get you only so far. You have to let these characters entrench themselves in your mind. The grace with which a.k.a. Higgins writes, skips across every page into a dizzying aray of unbridaled passion and furious battles and schemes that would leave John Woo hacking in the back row. Don't read this masterpiece as a favor to yourself, just read as a signal to every other author to step up to the raised plate.

An easy read. Breezed through it in no time but lacked the usual in depth personal look that I am use to. Great action and interesting plot. Some of the dialoge seemed forced and out of place. This is the second book I have read by Higgins and am just as pleased with the story line in this book as with the one in the other. Overall I'd recomend this book to someone looking for a good, fast moving, light read.

I'm a great fan of Jack Higgins especially his Sean Dillon series. I think I have all of them now, thanks Amazon. Book arrived with alloted time frame and was well packaged.

As a big fan of Jack Higgins I bought Khufra Run not realizing I would be in for a huge disappointment. As I read I found it hard to believe that it was even written by the same guy who had written The Eagle has Landed. Filled with repetition and boring English speech cliches, it was nothing like the Jack Higgins I was used to. Then I looked at it a little closer and saw that this was an early work not even originally published under Higgin's name originally, but under the name of one James Graham. As explanation Jack Higgin's is not this author's real name. According to Wikipedia that's merely one of several pseudonyms used by one English author whose real name is Harry Patterson. It seemed to me that the publisher was now trying to sell an inferior work written in Harry Patterson's earlier career , now attempting to simply capitalize on the later well-deserved reputation of "Jack Higgins." I like Jack Higgins.....but this early work is atrocious and you're not really buying a Jack Higgin' quality effort.

This book was originally published under another Jack Higgins pseudonymn James Graham.
It was published prior to "The Eagle Has Landed" and contains many of the exciting elements
(hairbreadth escapes, shootouts, etc.) found in many of Higgins early novels. The story
is very similiar to his book "The Keys Of Hell". However, the story is good and fast paced.
Of course parts of the story are a bit hard to believe - especially some of the escape sequences.
But Higgins does a good job weaving the various story elements together - making for an
enjoyable read.

As with most of Jack Higgins' works, we really enjoyed this book.

Shipment was timely. Packaging was neat, firm, and in
excellent condition, well taped. In general. just good shipping practices.