Night of the Fox

by Jack Higgins

Book Overview

On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced. A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671637274
• ISBN13: 9780671637279
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not to be missed

This book is one of my personal favourites, even among the works of Jack Higgins.The discovery of old photographs of British war hero Harry Martineau dressed in a Nazi uniform serves as the starting point for this fast-paced historical thriller. Set on the Channel Islands during the Second World War, "Night of the Fox" revolves around Martineau's assembly of a team of doppelgangers who, posing as an elite German squad, are sent to retrieve a captured British officer - a man who knows the exact time and place of the Allied invasion of France. Things fall apart when one of Martineau's men drowns and is discovered to be wearing a R.A.F. uniform under his German one. Higgins skilfully keeps the story moving forward, and the remembered tale of heroism and sacrifice is told with just a hint of nostalgia, in a tone appropriate to the sad chain of events its heroes endure.

The besat selling author of "Eagle has returned to his

best selling ways in this bestseller. Great plotting! I saw the movie on television. I weas enthralled!! Great storytelling!!

What an exciting and fantastic experience !

I have never read such an exciting book. The reason I bought this book was not for a fun but for studying english. But, for Mr.Higgins's marvelous talent, I could enjoy the story itself. What an excellent time I had. I want to read Mr.Higgins's another novel to brush up my english.

This book is much better than the movie version

Even though I realized that this is just a fiction but I wonder if it is actually happened during WWII

the second best WWII book I have read.

Wow! what a book! Great fun. The ending was very exciting. Higgins did it again!