The Death Trade (Hardcover)

from velopunk

The characters are too cardboard, caricatures of their stereotype . I think I've read enough of this series.

from DeaconBernie

Without Ferguson pulling strings all over the place, this work just sort of wandered all over the place. Yes, there were some gun battles. Yes, the good guys won as always but nobody distinguished themselves. The trend to Sarah and Roper became more clearer.

from tcards

Higgins' characters always come across as too similar to Clive Cussler's; i.e. too good to be true. I like the plotting but the seemingly perfect protagonists just don't do it for me. There is also a paucity of depth regarding background and too much black or white (Good Guys vs. Bad Guys). Reali...

from Bridgey

The Death Trade - Jack Higgins **** Jack Higgins is easily my favourite author, ever since reading The Eagle has Landed around ten years ago I have worked my way through his very impressive back catalogue, loving every book he has written. The fact that he is still writing thrillers of this calib...

from rufusraider

The Death Trade by Jack Higgins is another excellent novel starring Sean Dillon and the cast of characters that makes up General Ferguson's Private Army for the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The story revolves around al-Queda and the Iranian quest to develop nuclear weapons. As usual in a...