Storm Warning

Written by Jack Higgins

Narrated by Greg Wagland

Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack Higgins

In the end all roads lead to hell.

It’s 1944 and Germany is facing its final defeat. Five thousand miles across the Allied dominated Atlantic, twenty-two men and five nuns aboard the Barquentine Deutschland are battling home to Kiel.

Among them are a U-boat ace captured in a raid on Falmouth. A female American doctor caught in the nightmare of flying bombs. A gunboat commander who’s fought from the Solomons to the Channel and a rear admiral desperate to get some of the action.

Allies and enemies, men and women, the hunters and the haunted all drawn into the eye of the storm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Aug 29, 2019
• ISBN: 9780008359041

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.

Reviews for Storm Warning

[seanzilla-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I'd never read any Jack Higgins and found this lying around a beach house, so picked it up and started reading; terrifically well paced with well delineated characters.

[theoclarke · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A seafaring adventure in which vessels on both sides of the Second World War find a storm to be the greater enemy. Subplots include the doomed love of a German sailor for a nun and backstories for some of the characters aboard the wrecked tall ship and its rescuers. In many ways a large part of the story is a reworking of A Game For Heroes (Higgins writing as James Graham, 1970).

[oogod · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Not a bad story but I did have a hard time getting into the book at first which is surprising for me because it takes place in the WWII era. If you don't know the ins and out of sailing terms be prepared to look things up if you want to understand parts of the book.