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    Day of Reckoning

    By Jack Higgins

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    The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to the bestseller lists, launching undercover enforcer Sean Dillon into a most spectacular adventure – a no-holds-barred battle with a Mafia don.

    It’s all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox.

    Here in his eighth adventure, former IRA terrorist turned British Government enforcer Sean Dillon is established as one of the most popular characters in modern fiction, while Jack Higgins has an unrivalled position as the biggest name in thriller writing around the world.

    Widely hailed as an outstanding return to form, Day of Reckoning raced straight into 2011’s top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list in hardback

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJun 14, 2011
    ISBN9780007373970
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    Jack Higgins

    Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.

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    • 4/5
      This is in the true fashion of all the Sean Dillon novels by Higgins. I was intrigued by the murder of Katherine, but knew from the start where this was going. But that did not detract from my enjoyment of the novel. From the defenseless Katherine to the coldblooded response by Sean Dillon, the characters are true to the Higgins formula. The plot had enough twists to keep me reading, but I had noticed that some of the scenes looked quite familiar. But then, how many ways are there to take a bad guy out and still stay true to the characters and environment presented in this series?
    • 4/5
      The skill of the author comes shining through in this fast-paced, thoughtful volume. Higgins just keeps getting better and better as his characters continue to dispatch the absolute worst of Britain's enemies. This work, in particular, was especially gripping in that it was very difficult to simply go to bed and leave part of it unread.
    • 4/5
      This is the 8th book in the Sean Dillion series, thankfully the story line has evolved beyond the Irish rogue drama which was portrayed in books 1 through 7.However, such evolution is not enough to save this book from mediocrity, the story line whilst evolved is absurd - totally and utterly unrealistic; the characters are hollow and virtually every line is either action or transit - there's hardly any atmosphere, and what atmosphere there is almost feels like it was added later for padding.It's an fast easy read that's entertaining but there's little substance to it - it will fill in the time of a commute or plane trip nicely and then is perfectly forgettable.
    • 3/5
      The story was clever, with some unpredictable twists and turns. However, it was obvious the characters had shared a previous novel - the relationships were hard to track. The action was interesting, but written so dispassionately. The author also overused the literary device of cliffhangers, making unexplained decisions that we find out the answer to in the next chapter.