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    East of Desolation
    East of Desolation
    East of Desolation
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    East of Desolation

    Written by Jack Higgins

    Narrated by Michael Page

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    Joe Martin had been on many salvage operations, but his gut feeling told him this one was different. The insurance company and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot had hired him to find out what he could about the crash, but some things were best left alone.

    Before long, what should have been a routine mission becomes a hair-raising adventure packed with danger and betrayal. Then a batch of priceless emeralds are thrown into the equation, and Joe’s life is on the line.

    “A thriller writer in a class of his own” —Financial Times

    “Higgins is a master of his craft.” —Daily Telegraph

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 15, 2010
    ISBN9781441817822
    Author

    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.

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    • 3/5
      Joe Martin, a recovering alcoholic, makes his living as a bush pilot in Greenland, flying passengers and cargo to remote areas. He's been on many salvage operations, but starts to get a bad feeling when an insurance company and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot hires him to find out what caused the crash that killed her husband. Before long, what should have been a routine mission becomes a hair-raising adventure packed with danger and betrayal.

      This is a fast moving action-adventure novel with a number of potentially interesting characters that need to be more fleshed out. The author's description of the harsh Greenland terrain is vividly rendered and is the best thing about this book.

      I just discovered East of Desolation was written in 1968 and recently reissued. Jack Higgins has improved with time but this will be a disappointing story for fans of his more recent books, especially Sean Dillon.
    • 5/5
      A book written in a different style and formula than you would usualy expect from Higgins. In fact, it really reminds me of Alisitair Macleans Bear Island.The plot is simple enough, an ex forces pilot decides to live for a while in Greenland to escape the pressures of modern civilisation and earn a living through his wits.His life is disrupted when he is offered to charter a number of people (including a beautiful widow) to a plane crash in order to identify the dead husband.However events take a more sinister turn, with lots of double agents and storyline twists the plot rattles along to a most unexpected conclusion.Another Higgins classic and as always, very recommendable.
    • 3/5
      Good page turner, but story a bit forced and a rather abrupt ending.
    • 4/5
      Although reading this was a thoroughly enjoyable experience, I find it telling that I was over 100 pages into it before I was certain that I had read the book before. Twice. A sober alcoholic pilot in Greenland becomes involved in salvage from a wrecked aircraft for a beautiful widow and her insurance agent while befriending a fading film star and his beautiful girlfriend. Inevitably, little is as it seems and, in my case, much is unmemorable.