Toll for the Brave

Name: Toll for the Brave
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jack Higgins
ISBN: 9781441845092

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/15/2011

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Betrayed by his lover, beaten and almost broken by his captors, Ellis Jackson escapes from the Viet Cong with his best friend James Maxwell St. Clair. Dodging bullets, they finally break free from a living hell.Some years later, back in England, Ellis wakes to find himself holding a 12-bore shot gun surrounded by staring faces. In the other room his mistress, together with James are both dead.Has Ellis Jackson finally succumbed to the madness he first endured at the hands of the Viet Cong? Or is he being set up by a greater power than himself?“Open a Jack Higgins novel and you’ll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers…first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense, and full-on action.” —Sunday Express“A thriller writer in a class of his own.” —Financial Times

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 Caroline

This book, for me, is a rarity. A novel by one of my favourite authors that is new to me. Toll For The Brave was out of print for a long time, but is now fortunately available again. This is a different story from most of the Jack Higgins books I've read. Most of the others have been either set in Wo......more

Goodreads review by Neil

When Higgins died last month, it struck me that I’d not read any of his work for perhaps a couple of decades; and that, apart from a signed copy of ‘Cold Harbour’ dating back to 1990, I didn’t have anything by him in the collection - this for an author whose paperbacks I virtually hoovered up from t......more

Goodreads review by Steve

This early work of Higgins is a tremendously weak story where a thoroughly unlikeable and incompetent neurotic Vietnam vet ends up—among other things—having sex with every woman in the narrative. He faces down Communist Chinese who, oddly, speak Cantonese instead of Mandarin and who practice a hodge......more

Goodreads review by Shamila

Didn't have the best first impression about the author since the first work of his I got to read felt mediocre to me, but this set the bar so high and I'd definitely look for more like it. The story lives up to the title; intriguing, full of suspense and thrilling action. Highly recommended for the......more