A Game For Heroes, Jack Higgins
A Game For Heroes, Jack Higgins
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A Game For Heroes

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2011

Synopsis

The occupied Channel Islands: the last outpost of German resistance at the end of a long and savage conflict. Most feared amongst them: St Pierre, the heavily guarded fortress chosen by a crazed SS Commandant for his suicidal final stand.With Berlin on the verge of capture, it is the most sensitive mission of the war.An end game that calls for a hero – with something else besides. A game for a battle-hardened veteran ready to lay down his life for his birthplace. And for the woman he left behind…“Jack Higgins is the master craftsman of good, clean adventure…in the footsteps of Sapper and the great John Buchan” – Daily Mail

About Jack Higgins

Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenna on October 14, 2022

Here's another one from my piles of TBR. Many moons ago, I was reading a James Patterson on a break at work. A co-worker saw the book & recommended I try reading Nelson DeMille. I did & liked him too. When I was reading the DeMille the next week on my break, another co-worker suggested Jack Higgins.......more

Goodreads review by Penny on November 07, 2010

Love this author. Even his worst books are always entertaining. This one has a copyright date of 1970 by James Graham. Higgins has several pen names (Patterson, Harry; Fallon, Martin; Graham, James; Marlowe, Hugh) so he can be difficult to track sometimes. He is at his best when writing about the WWI......more

Goodreads review by Alan on November 07, 2016

My father's family lived in the Channel Islands so I had always wanted to read this book and as with all of his WWII stories Higgins delivers. The characters are compelling if more than a little jaded. Many of the Germans are pictured as being as heroic as their enemies. Great plot with a number of......more

Goodreads review by David on June 19, 2021

Vintage Higgins with a great ending.......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 04, 2018

Interesting for being set in an overlooked corner of World War II, the Channel Islands, the only part of Britain occupied by the Germans. In this story, the war is ending, but a fanatical Nazi commander of one of the islands (the fictional St. Pierre) wants to make a last stand against the Allies.......more

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