The Killing Ground
by Jack Higgins
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Author: Jack HigginsEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-02-12
ISBN: 0399153802
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Book Reviews of The Killing Ground
Book Review: Very, Very weak
Summary: 1 Stars
I've been a Higgins fan for years, so I automatically picked this up when I saw it in the bookstore. I was wrong! This is a comic book, not a novel. "Kapow! Wham, Bam!" the good guys win. The bad guy nobly falls on his sword. (a) Characters are thinly developed. If you don't know all about Dillon, Billy and Harry from earlier books, you'll really be in trouble. (b) Characters are tired. He's used them too much. As presented here, they are not even close to believable. (c) Plot, though on the surface a good idea, isn't well thought out. He jumps from scene to scene. By page 50, I found myself thinking, "This is a BAD book." It much be a terrible temptation for an established author, knowing that you'll be paid a lot of money no matter what you churn out. In this instance, Higgins succumbed to the temptation.
Summary of The Killing Ground
The master of suspense returns, with a chilling novel of modern terrorism and revenge.For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known.
The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father and taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East's most feared terrorists. Dillon has had his own run-ins with that clan, and when the distraught man begs Dillon for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores-but he has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die-and Dillon may be one of them.
Filled with dark suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, this novel once again proves that in the words of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Jack Higgins is the dean of intrigue novelists. He has no equal."
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