Sure Fire

I've liked a lot of Higgins' books over the years both to read & in movies, but they've all been very serious adult novels. A book featuring 15 year olds got my interest, but also made me wary. I read Mickey Spillane's attempt at YA, The Ship That Never Was, & was horrified. It was beyond awful, but......more

I came to this book reluctantly. I saw it and thought that it was a copy of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider novels, and it is. But it's better. Much better. The teaming of spy/adventure veteran Jack Higgins with Justin Richards means that Higgins did some of the research and the outline, while Richard......more

This was a good adventure novel. I haven't read anything like this in a while, so it was a nice change of pace. I know of jack Higgins but this was the first novel I'd read by him. From what I understand, this is a YA work which isn't his usual. Not a bad read, but at times did seem a little too "co......more

Verygood.Full of action and adventure.Very well-written story.Fast-moving story.It starts somewhere and ends elsewhere.I would reccomend this book to those who are 13 or 14 as it contains a bitof violence.The adaptability of Jack Higgins is tested here and he has shown that he is one of the best aut......more

This book has a lot of twists and really made me wonder what a character was going to do. Jack Higgins described the charactrers really well and I look forward to reading more of his books.......more