Rough Justice [Paperback]

Jack Higgins (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: PENGUIN Group (USA) Inc.; First Thus edition (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425224805
• ISBN-13: 978-0425224809
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,406,241 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.

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tense suspense thriller, August 20, 2008

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rough Justice (Hardcover)

On the surface Harry Miller is an ordinary person; an MP who is in realty the counterpart to Blake Johnson, the American President's top security man. Blake runs the black ops group the Basement, a unit that works outside the law to administer justice and protect the country and its people. Blake and Harry met in Banu, Kosovo; each was there to inspect the country's leaders and to prevent a Russian Officer Igor Zorin from torching a mosque that would have reignited the fighting.

President Putin and his right hand man Ivan Volkov decide Miller should be taken out and assign the mysterious the Broker, who has never been seen, to contact Michael Quinn, a former IPPI agent. Quinn contacts one of his agents to take out the MP. Miller knows he is under surveillance and being stalked, but takes out the contact killer. He also insures that a plutonium shipment by boat is carefully monitored and tracked all the way. Putin knows that Miller with Major Ferguson's people were responsible (the British version of the Basement) and wants him dead. The plan works only the wrong person dies; Miller with Ferguson's help will not rest until all those involved in the assassination plot are dead.

Suspense grandmaster Jack Higgins writes another fascinating tense thriller that is loaded with action. Yet with all the non--stop action, the story line also contains the political realties of the world today with insight into Muslim fundamentalists, Russia's efforts to return to superpower status, the NATO response, and the fragile peace in several places like Northern Ireland. However, as always is the case in a Mr. Higgins' thriller, his key characters seem real even when they perform seemingly surreal stunts; and yes cold blooded killer Sean Dillon is in the middle of the maelstrom.

Harriet Klausner

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A weekend with old friends, September 8, 2008

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Andrew J. Wallace "Andy Wallace" (Cary, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rough Justice (Hardcover)

I just finished reading Rough Justice, the 15th book in the series featuring Sean Dillon as a reformed IRA terrorist now acting on behalf of the British Prime Minister. It is probably the 12th or 13th one I have read in the series, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Having read the previous books in the series, I am very familiar of the cast of characters, several of whom are among my favorites. Each Higgins story is free standing, and very entertaining. I would not want to read this book if it were my first exposure to Higgins. Trying to catch up to all the characters all these years into his work would be nearly impossible.
I look forward to the next installment.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars bad dialogue, March 21, 2011

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wolfman - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rough Justice (Hardcover)

I did not like this book at all. The beginning was ok, but towards the end it got more and more boring. Sorry, Jack Higgins cannot write good thrillers any more.