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 Toll for the Brave - Jack Higgins
Description: ISBN 0007127251 / Author: Jack Higgins / Genre: Crime / Thriller / From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction. Ellis Jackson ... more  Toll for the Brave - Jack Higgins ... woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked. Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he? Maybe it would all have been easier to take if he really had been mad.Newest Review: ... their lives. Some years later St Clair has gone on to be a successful ambassador for the Marines whilst Jackson can barely ... more ... make it home to his cottage in the woods. Things become grimmer when Jackson wakes one day to find himself covered in blood and playing host to two headless corpses. With LSD coursing through his body he has visions of Vietnamese solders from the past coming to kill him. Under arrest and in an asylum can Jackson prove his innocence – even if he is not sure himself that it’s true?
Although quite far fetched Higgins has created in ‘A Toll for the Brave’ one of his more effecting books. The first half in particular is...more |
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Toll for the Brave - Jack Higgins: Are you a Man's Man? (726 words)
by samueltyler - written on 02/11/06 (Very useful, 58 readings)
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Men like action books. Well men like me anyway. Sometimes you just want to read a book that has men with surnames shooting each other over a lost microfilm or a supple damson. Over the years Jack Higgins has become a master in this ‘Man’s Fiction for Men’ genre churning out at least one book a year. He has grown so popular that publishers have decided to re-release some of his older books that he originally wrote years ago under aliases. With recent Sean Dillon books being pretty poor it’s with some relief that the like of the 1971 novel ‘Toll for the Brave’ come out again. Ellis Jackson is a drunk; a haunted man he struggles with memories that have been ...
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