A Game for Heroes
By (Author) Jack Higgins
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
15th August 2013
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
368
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 22mm
200g
Combat, love and sacrifice from the twilight of the war in this classic thriller of WW2 adventure.
The occupied Channel Islands: the last outpost of German resistance at the end of a long and savage conflict. Most feared among them: St Pierre. The mid-Atlantic fortress chosen by a crazed SS Commandant for his suicidal stand.
With Berlin on the verge of capture, it is the most sensitive mission of the war.
An end game that calls for a hero with something else besides. A game for a battle-hardened veteran ready to lay down his life for his birthplace. And for the woman he left behind
Open a Jack Higgins novel and youll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.
Sunday Express
Higgins is a master of his craft.
Daily Telegraph
A thriller writer in a class of his own.
Financial Times
The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.
Daily Mail
Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.