Bad Company
By Jack Higgins
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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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Reviews for Bad Company
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A typical Higgins work with the whole company of characters. The story is a real stretch which suggests Higgins might need a break.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5If I was so inclined it would be possible to review this novel using a single cheesy line from the very book I'm now writing about: "It's like a bad novel, the whole thing." That pretty much sums up my thoughts on this title, but nonetheless I shall expand below.This current plot arc started with the Rashid Family in "Edge of Danger" two books ago, some unbearably bad judgement and an epic plot hole saw the arc extend into "Midnight Runner", the entire book of which was spent trying to fix the bad judgement exhibited in the prior book (we all know that if we attempt to assassinate the US President but then our family dies the authorities will let us go with sympathy, right? right?).Well, continuing on with the epic plot holes "Bad Company" introduces us to Baron Max von Berger who was been a silent partner of the Rashid Family all this time to the tune of two billion dollars. However, despite the Rashid Family attempts at destroying the world oil markets, conspiring to assassinate a US president and various other nefarious activities such as arms smuggling and what not, no one, anywhere, in the US Government nor UK Government security services bothered to run a simple computer check on the company Rashid Investments until this book... then oh what do you know there's a silent partner. We then continue the utterly ludicrous bad judgement and let Baron Max von Berger get away with his plans for awhile before a climax in a castle in Germany. Oh, and Hitler's missing diary is involved in what seems a bad Clive Cussler-esque attempt at tying current action to past events, but it's never really used per se just hangs around at the edges of the story as apparent motivation for them to chase Baron Max von Berger down because being a part of a conspiracy to corner the world oil markets and arms smuggling is apparently A-OK.Deeply unimpressive novel with an even more uninspiring plot that the last two novels.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Back in the 1970s and 1980s, Jack Higgins was one of the best thriller writers in the business. He had a lean, vigorous style (probably learned writing 200-page paperback originals in the 1960s) and a gift for offbeat plots and unusual heroes--the most memorable of whom was Irish gunman-poet Liam Devlin, featured in "The Eagle Has Landed." Nearly twenty years on, Higgins is well past his literary prime, and "Bad Company" is sad proof of it.Another installment in the seemingly endless, increasingly repetitive story of IRA gunman turned British agent Sean Dillon, "Bad Company" puts the series' stock company of characters through their desultory paces with little imagination and less wit. Dillon, an interesting character in his first few appearances in the 1990s, has become progressively less so with every subsequent outing. The rough edges have been sanded off his character, the darkness bleached out of his soul, and he has--even by the loose standards of thriller fiction--become boringly invincible.The first fifty pages--a long slab of WWII back story involving the principal villain--are the best in the book After that, regular readers of the series will feel that they've heard it all before and new readers will wonder what all the fuss was about.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5what rubish !I started this book thinking it will soon pick after a slow start,but as it went on it got more and more contrived.The dialogue is dire and the ending witch was a struggle to get to was laughable.