To Catch a King, Jack Higgins
To Catch a King, Jack Higgins
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To Catch a King

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2011

Synopsis

1940. Hitler’s terrifying war machine will soon roll through England, and in its wake Hitler plans to enthrone puppet monarchs under Nazi control. For these roles he demands none other than the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor.Berlin. Brilliant SS officer Walter Schellenberg is ordered to “persuade” the Duke and Duchess to the Nazi cause. But when Shellenberg impulsively aids the escape of beautiful Jewish nightclub singer Hannah Winter, he plunges them both into a dark arena of intrigue and betrayal. Hunted by ruthless Gestapo agents, chased through the deadly underground from Berlin to Madrid to Lisbon, they are racing on a collision course with their own loyalties—and the fate of all England.“Higgins is the master’s master of World War II spycraft storytelling” —United Press International

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 David on April 25, 2014

Jack Higgins has always been one of my favorite authors. I found The Eagle Has Landed to be one of the best I've read, and still have this in my collection. To Catch A King was a book I found in a thrift store nearly 20 years ago, and finally got around to reading it. The premise takes place when Na......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on September 28, 2018

From RDCB Volume 1 1980 ~ This is what happens when some idiotic Nazi officials close to Hitler, concoct a harebrained scheme of kidnapping the Duke of Windsor and installing him as England's king after he has already abdicated with the wild and foolish notion that the Prince of Wales is too ready a......more

Goodreads review by Varsha on December 27, 2023

So interesting, didn’t know anything about this piece of history!......more

Goodreads review by Kelley on November 25, 2022

This book was all right. But not as interesting as I thought it would be. Kind of underwhelming I guess. It’s about a plot by the Nazis in World War 2 to convince the former King Edward to join their side (against the British) while the British and Americans try to foil the plot. The audiobook’s nar......more

Goodreads review by Adelaide on September 01, 2021

Um thriller histórico, passado na II Guerra, decorrendo entre Berlim, Madrid e Lisboa......more

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