Sheba: A Spy Thriller

by Jack Higgins

Book Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes another thrilling novel of World War II intrigue. The year is 1939. The lost Temple of Sheba is not just a biblical legend. A German archaeologist has found it. The Nazis have claimed it. And one American explorer has stumbled upon their secret... When archaeologist Gavin Kane is hired to find a woman's missing husband, he follows the man's trail into the ruthless desert of Southern...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425146707
• ISBN13: 9780425146705
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A decent adventure with an Eric Ambler ambience

I'd never read a Jack Higgins novel before. It was decent; he manages a sort of an Eric Ambler 1930s ambience adapted for the mass-market paperback. Kane, who is pretty much Indiana Jones minus the bullwhip, but including the battered felt hat, is an American archaeologist-adventurer ekeing out a living in a sleepy, sweltering Arabian port on the eve of World War II. When a lovely woman shows up looking for her missing archeologist husband, Kane makes the rounds of the town and finally digs up a trace. Meanwhile a secret German team seeks to capitalize on a German's discovery of traces of the Queen of Sheba, long-rumored, but never substantiated. The Nazis aren't as interested in the discovery itself, as they are in the opportunity to slip a long-range seaplane with just enough capacity to reach, bomb and obstruct the Suez Canal as the German tanks roll into Poland. An enjoyable adventure.

Great Adventure

This was an almost perfect adventure. To have been written almost forty years ago, it still stands up. Keep in mind this novel was written almost twenty years before Indiana Jones. Makes you think maybe ole Jack Higgins influenced the creators of the famous archaeologists....

this wwII thriller is a true grabber.

This book is a great grabber. Don't start this book unless you have read all of the others. % star reading at it's best.