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bucolic_frolic

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3. Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Feb 8, 2026, 11:25 AM

19 hrs ago

Re-reading for style and technique. Higgins is wordy yet he captures the reader's mind. Violates all the rules of who-what-situation in the first page, yet his words create unease, expectation, so you keep going. I don't know if he'd get a first read from publishers today.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, February 8, 2026? [View all] hermetic 20 hrs ago OP

James NoRethugFriends 19 hrs ago #1

That is hermetic 19 hrs ago #2

I also highly recommend My Jim by Nancy Rawles. cbabe 19 hrs ago #4

That does sound good hermetic 18 hrs ago #6

Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed bucolic_frolic 19 hrs ago #3

From 1975 hermetic 18 hrs ago #8

Boy, I must have read that more than 40 years ago. rsdsharp 6 hrs ago #15

Not exactly fiction, I'm listening to Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Goonch 19 hrs ago #5

Finished, "A Calamity of Souls", by David Balducci Bayard 18 hrs ago #7

Just got on the waiting list for hermetic 18 hrs ago #9

Comfort re-reading a stack of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Enjoying the depth and detail. cbabe 17 hrs ago #10

Finished re-reading "Lords of the North" by Bernard Cornwell. Number9Dream 14 hrs ago #11

Hi!! hermetic 14 hrs ago #12

The Director- Daniel Kehlmann duckworth969 13 hrs ago #13

This is brand new hermetic 12 hrs ago #14

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