The Savage Day

Name: The Savage Day
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Higgins
ISBN: 9781441844262

Author: Jack Higgins

Series: Simon Vaughn Series #2

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 10/15/2010

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Simon Vaughn knows what it's like to fight a dirty war, he's had first-hand experience in Korea. Now he languishes in a Greek jail. When it comes to firearms and gun-running nobody does it better, but those days are behind him, until the British army proposes a deal. His freedom for his help against the IRA in Belfast. He doesn't have a choice, if he wants his freedom back he'll have to conquer a new battleground... "Highly topical, highly inventive." - Evening Standard

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 Erik on September 20, 2022

A wise-cracking firearms specialist hero who laughs in the face of death. An IRA villain who laughs maniacally seemingly for the hell of it. This is a tightly written tale of terrorism, guns, gold and death defying escapes. Normally I tend to avoid Jack Higgins, but this was a captivating adventure......more

Goodreads review by Penny on February 25, 2013

An awsome early Higgins. He was honing his skills and doing a wonderful job. The main character, Simon Vaughan, appears to be a prototype for Higgin's most famous character Sean Dillon. Vaughan is bribed into joining a British intelligance group by none other than Brigadier Harry Ferguson (Sean Dill......more

Goodreads review by François on April 12, 2020

This novel is a stunning suspense thriller that captures the tensions during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, showing how splinter groups of the IRA competed rather than co-operated with one another, and illustrating the collateral damage in the tragic loss of civilian lives. This story is not so mu......more

Goodreads review by IAN on December 03, 2019

More Run of the mill fayre from Jack Higgins. Which is not to say this novel is bad. It's a very fast-paced tale. Which adequately shows why Jack Higgins was considered by many to be the master of the modern thriller. Maybe in my View in the 70s, When this book was published, he was, times change ho......more

Goodreads review by Oli on October 14, 2022

The thirty-second #jackhiggins #martinfallon #hughmarlowe #harrypatterson #henrypatterson #jamesgraham novel #thesavageday published in 1972. One of the better Higgins novels I have read for a while. Higgins is very familiar with the troubles in Ireland and the novels set there always seem a little......more