Year of the Tiger, Jack Higgins
Year of the Tiger, Jack Higgins
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Year of the Tiger

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 5 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2011


Synopsis

In 1959, agents acting for British Intelligence mastermind the famous escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. Three years later, Whitehall is again behind a spectacular secret mission against the occupying Chinese Forces.…Paul Chavasse is persuaded to return because he is the only man who knows about Tibet. Knows about the evil its oppressors are capable of. Knows just about enough to bring a vitally important scientist back to the West alive.Chavasse thought he was aware of the risks. An illegal plane flight through the high Himalayas, a dangerous rendezvous with the Tibetan freedom fighters, almost certain confrontation with a trigger-happy army. But success is never a certainty. Not when your soul is almost destroyed by a cruel and vicious captor. And not when your heart is in thrall to the beautiful women who may aid your betrayal.…

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

Excellent action packed thriller... Couldn't keep it down......more

Goodreads review by Ed

good book, quite readable, very "James Bond" type of protagonist.......more

Another fun-filled, action-packed Jack Higgins adventure, this one combining plot elements such as China's occupation of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, and the height of the Space Race during the heady days of the Cold War, specifically in 1962. The intrepid Franco-British agent Paul Chavasse, who works for......more

Goodreads review by Addy

This is perhaps the only Higgins novel which is based in Tibet-Ladakh region or at least the only one that I've come across. Amazing adventure cum action thriller with a steady pace and build up. Recommended.......more