by Monsoon » Mon May 15, 2006 3:24 pm
I've read loads of them, but this is definitely an author who i have long since fallen out of love with. I think his earlier books were better mainly because they were much more varied. However like a lot of authors he has in recent years just stuck with the same set of characters who get wrapped up in pretty much the same set of plots with a stereotype baddie for book after book.
It also seems to me that the books have got smaller over the years and are simply churned out for financial purposes rather than to write a great novel. Although he must be loaded anyway so it is probably the publishers who are driving the bandwagon along in this way. It's not as though the books are cheaper either, i think the hardbacks retail at a similar price to other hardbacks but are a damn sight thinner!
Now having said all that..Eye of the storm, i think this is the first of a long line of books about Sean Dillon, and trying not to give anything away i think it was based on a true story locally but during the time of the first Gulf war. Probably not a bad book to read but the books that follow are all too easy to predict.
My favourite Higgins books are the renowned 'Eagle has landed', Cold Harbour and a book he wrote as Harry Patterson called The Valhalla Exchange.
While a tiger eyed its prey and an eagle raged in a thunderous sky a river of darkness fell upon a burning sun and the wolf cried tis a time to die, thus did the angels weep as power and triumph in those golden eyes did creep.