Pay the Devil

Name: Pay the Devil
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Higgins
ISBN: 9781455889808

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Phil Gigante

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 06/05/2012

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in a civil war of its own. The struggle between the wealthy landlords and the impoverished tenant farmers is growing in intensity, and having just fought and lost a terrible war, Clay wants to avoid the coming conflict. But after witnessing the atrocities that the landowners visit upon the people, Clay is unable to stand by. Taking the guise of a legendary night-riding outlaw, he joins the fight against the landlords -- and wages a rebellion of his own!

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 Rachael

My boyfriend has read a lot of Jack Higgins in his time and so he picked this book up knowing his style. He passed it onto me saying that it wasn’t the best example of Higgins work but still good for a quick read. He was right in that it took me only two days to finish amidst a busy travelling sched......more

Goodreads review by Miriam

The pedestrian paperback cover might have put me off until I opened it up, but chancing across this unassuming little epic has turned out to be one of the best choices I've made in a while, where books are concerned. In fact, this is one of the best books I've read all year. The characters are so in......more

Goodreads review by Scott

I've seen Higgins name many times over the years but hadn't tried one until I ran across this book in our corner book exchange "library." It's basically a historical romance and the characters are so simplistic I didn't care who got killed or saved or married or whatever but the end — just wanted to......more

Goodreads review by Steve

August 2018 I don't often read historical fiction and especially the South's point of view of the Civil War plus life in Ireland in the 1860+ when I get a Jack Higgins Very engrossing story!......more

Goodreads review by Kerrfunk

The story was fine. Col. Clay Fitzgerald goes from post-Civil-War America to Ireland to collect an inheritance, and becomes Batman not long after arriving. There's romantic tension introduced early that just drips and drips with veritable foreplay and SPOILER culminates in a kiss, and the whole time......more