Midnight Runner

by Jack Higgins and Higgins Jack

Book Overview

" Death is the midnight runner." - Arab proverb Higgins' last novel, Edge of Danger, was "hugely entertaining," said the Los Angeles Times . "The publisher describes it as a powerful thriller, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399148337
• ISBN13: 9780399148330
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A Masterly Reading....

Compellingly performed by Patrick Macnee - a true master of the spoken word, with his wealth of voices and accents. This latest thrilling Jack Higgins adventure, the eagerly awaited sequel to EDGE OF DANGER, charts the evil revenge of Kate Rashid on our hero, Sean Dillon.In a story full of thrills and excitement, Mr Macnee brings all the characters to life...into 3-D in your living room. He builds the suspense and tension to the final dramatic climax with his masterly pacing and tones. A must for Higgins and Macnee fans alike!

Sean Dillon: "As ever was"

This series of books about the converted IRA killer and his friends is one of my all-time favorites! Let's be frank, however; this is not great literature. The characters are mere brush strokes, there's very little exposition, the plots are see-through, and there always tends to be a happy ending. That being said, the books are just full of non-stop excitement, to the extent that you overlook the flaws in the work. Once you start reading these books, you're hooked from beginning to end, and sometimes it's impossible to put down until you've finished reading, even if it's the wee hours of the morning, and your eyes are burning from lack of sleep! That's the highest accolade I can give a book: that it kept me up way beyond my bedtime. It'll happen to you also.

a thrill a nanosecond

Kate Rashid AKA The Countess of Loch Dhu is young, beautiful, and the wealthiest woman in the world. She is half Arab and half English and uses the money to gain even more power than she has already has because she has declared a jihad against some very powerful individuals including the president of the United States. The American's top spymaster Blake Johnson, and his British counterpart General Charles Ferguson and his most lethal agent Sean, an ex-IRA enforcer are her current targets. She blames them for the death of her three brothers that she loved deeply. She doesn't care they were trying to kill the President and Blake. She wants her revenge and she will have it or die trying. Assisting her in her diabolical plot is her newly discovered relative, Rubert Dauncey. They have something very special planned for their enemies but they don't realize that those they want dead are one step behind or ahead of them, waiting to catch them off guard. A Jack Higgins novel is usually a thrill a second but MIDNIGHT RUNNER is a thrill a nanosecond. It starts off at warp speed and never slows down for a moment racing towards a life and death finale that will leave readers breathless but satisfied. Fans familiar with this series will be happily reunited with some old and familiar characters while those reading the author for the first time will immediately want to go out and find his back list so they can read it ASAP.Harriet Klausner

ANOTHER NON-STOP THRILLER FROM JACK HIGGINS.

Sean Dillon and company are at it again and the action is as we would expect from Higgins. I read this book in practically one sitting and enjoyed it a lot. I am looking forward to the next Dillon outing and wondering about Kate Rashid????? As one reviewer mentioned unleavened bread and Savile Row suits, who cares? The plot's the thing and there's plenty of action to move it along.

Another great Dillon adventure

jack Higgins is fantastic. his last two books really blew me away, and now he's back! Some readers of the last two books were somewhat disappointed due to 2d characters and underdeveloped plot...i can assure you, this time he lacks in no department! I am sure you'll find this a return to form. I myself didn't mind the last books, i thought they were two of his best. fast paced and exciting. Edge of Danger provided some really really compelling characters. And this book continued that trend. it shows us more of Kate rashid, and brings in the excellent Daniel Quinn, who i would love to see again. The writing is first class. Some writers over-write, too complicated and hard to understand, and some writers underwrite, with oversimplification. But jack higgins gets its absolutely perfect. Sean Dillon is great, and all the other regulars are back with force. The plot here is good, although i didnt feel it was quite as good as his previous two. there is less action, and it's not quite as fast paced. However, the characters are still strong. I was a bit disappointed with the fact that Kate Rashid wasn't really "after" Dillion, as i had been lead to believe. I was looking forward to a book where the tables had been turned on the heroes and they were now the ones being hunted. Really hunted.Another quibble...the number of times Higgins mentiond "unleavened bread" and "saville row" suits, really got on my nerves. Does he have to tell us the type of bread every time? Does he only know of one type of suit? (For almost all of the characters, at one point or another in the book, turnbed up wearing a savilel row suit.)one of the other things i have really loved about this book and the last is the setting. They speed around the globe from the Us to London to the Hazar. the landscape of the hazar really is great, and a perfect setting for a thriller novel. Something else i rather liked with this novel was that it was slightly hypocrtical of itself. Kate rashid is embarking upon her vendetta due to the fact that Sean Dillion killed her brothers. But then, during the course of this book, the daughter of Daniel Quinn is killed, and then he vows vengeance. They are in exactly the same situation. It seems to say "well, if Quinn can have vengeance, what is wrong with Kate Rashid wanting it too?" Another interesting point in the past three books has been the way that the character of Billy Salter has grown up. We first (i think) met him in Day of Reckoning, where he was just a slightly naive young lad looking for a good fight to prove himself in. Now, over the course of these books he has really grown up in his attitudes, and it's been fascinating to watch. This is yet another winner from Jack higgins.