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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, 12:25 PM

Feb 2026

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 Feb 2026 OP

James NoRethugFriends Feb 2026 #1

That is hermetic Feb 2026 #2

I also highly recommend My Jim by Nancy Rawles. cbabe Feb 2026 #4

That does sound good hermetic Feb 2026 #6

Read James last week. QED Feb 9 #16

Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed bucolic_frolic Feb 2026 #3

From 1975 hermetic Feb 2026 #8

Boy, I must have read that more than 40 years ago. rsdsharp Feb 9 #15

Not exactly fiction, I'm listening to Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari Goonch Feb 2026 #5

Finished, "A Calamity of Souls", by David Balducci Bayard Feb 2026 #7

Just got on the waiting list for hermetic Feb 2026 #9

Comfort re-reading a stack of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Enjoying the depth and detail. cbabe Feb 2026 #10

Finished re-reading "Lords of the North" by Bernard Cornwell. Number9Dream Feb 2026 #11

Hi!! hermetic Feb 2026 #12

The Director- Daniel Kehlmann duckworth969 Feb 2026 #13

This is brand new hermetic Feb 2026 #14

Just finishing The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith QED Feb 9 #17

I finished #5 in the Charlaine Harris Gunnie Rose series "All The Dead Shall Weep" Now Jonesing for #6 yellowdogintexas Feb 10 #18

That Catalogue Book hermetic Feb 11 #20

It is, and it is the first book in a series. I added one of them already yellowdogintexas Feb 16 #22

Station Eleven Easterncedar Feb 11 #19

That's a great story hermetic Feb 11 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author yellowdogintexas Feb 16 #23