High Citadel

Like discovering a secret everybody is already in on and when realising that, you didn't care and carried on anyway with your clapping. Another on the edge of your seat action thriller Desmond masterfully delivers tense action sequences engaging characters all with universal common sense or signific......more

The politics date the novel more effectively than carbon testing, but damned if ‘High Citadel’ isn’t one of the best action/adventure thrillers ever written. If not *the* best. The tension and pace are unremitting, the descriptive writing fiercely evocative, the action set-pieces bold and imaginativ......more

It was a great read and a much greater Re-read. It was one of the books that I found as a translation in an old man's collection so it was like a treasure to me and the story proved its worth to be like a treasure. Let’s start with the premise, because wow, what a setup! A ragtag group of passengers......more

Written in the mid-60s, ‘High Citadel’ is about as solid a traditional adventure thriller as you could hope to read. It has a simple but effective premise, a square-jawed hero, a decent supporting cast, and as much of the peril coming from nature as it does bad guys. I wrote recently in my review of......more

This is one of the most ridiculous books I've ever read, simply because of the premise: Passengers of a plane find themselves stranded in mountains after a crash and are chased ferociously by bloodthirsty, barely-human communists. They try to fight them and hold their ground by making medieval weapo......more