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Rough Justice | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Higgins
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5768
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0007276400
EAN: 9780007276400
ASIN: 0007276400
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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 Better than "The Killing Ground", but only just. August 11, 2008
Bowmore (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I do wish that Higgins would retire gracefully rather than continuing to produce this formulaic nonsense. As another reviewer has suggested, he doesn't need the money and is simply destroying his reputation.
Specifically, the characters are one-dimensional and well past their sell-by date, the plot is just a re-hash of previous books, it is full of factual inaccuracies and preposterous situations.
Like Colin Forbes, who died last year, Higgins has never written a decent novel in the post Cold War era. There are many modern authors who can and do.
The saving grace is that this book is better than the last one but that is no basis for a recommendation. Avoid.
Terrible July 29, 2008
Dr. Norman W. Poole
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the worst books I have read for some time. Very boring. Over half way through the book before the " hero" has anything of value to do. Lot of conversation and little action for most of the time. Written in a style that would have been OK in the 1960's when we were less critical of authors.Spend your money elsewhere!! Rather amaturish book. Not what I would have expected of an autghor of such reputation. Very disappointing.
 Stories where men are men Grrr May 9, 2008
Mr. M. Williams (UK)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Jack Higgins writes stories that put hairs on your chest. You only have to pick up a Jack Higgins novel and all of a sudden you feel more manly.
Pure fiction,but still his best in years. April 28, 2008
richard Brown (Lincon UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Two stars but his best book in some time. How Jack Higgins has fallen from the heights of his great war/adventure/thriller novels such as 'The Eagle has Landed','Confessional' and 'Night of the Fox'.But to be fair to Mr Higgins at the age of 78 and with a reported 60 million in the bank(Times Rich List)he has been pretty busy.'Rough Justice' comes hot on the heels of 'The Killing Ground' published just 8 months ago and is one of the longest books he has written.The good points are that Dillon does not dominate, what a boring one dimensional character he has become, and the pace and action are as ever fast and furious.The story isnt bad but if I was former President Putin I would be suing for defamation of character. Higgins has a serious dislike for Putin and the Russians and even links him to Bin Laden.Higgins also persists to keep the US President in office for what must be his 11th year. He never names the current Prime Minister, though he is obviously a conservative. He writes dreadful dialogue.Bad guys are killed and sent to the crematorium within minutes as in all the Dillon novels.......and yet I still quite enjoyed it, because at the end of the day it is pure fiction. I prefer the intellegence of Le Carre or Seymour but for a fast action packed read Higgins still has the style that makes you turn the pages faster and faster as the story unfolds.
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