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Thu, Mar 20, 2003

: Thunder Point

Author: Jack Higgins

This is an odd book. First, one of the key plot points is identical with Higgins’ Angel). Second, and much worse, all the good guys are incredibly stupid. They know who the bad guys are, and yet they keep allowing them to try to kill them (the good guys barely fight back). There’s no real action until the final chapter who Dillon defeats the bad guys. Lame. The plot’s interesting: just before Hitler’s suicide, his right-hand man escapes to a submarine which is to take him to South America where he can revive the Nazi dream. Unfortunately, the sub sinks off the U.S. Virgin islands. In modern times, a recreational diver discovers the sub, and in it contains the captain’s diary revealing the details of his passenger. It also says that his passenger is carrying a book with the names of all those secret people loyal to Hitler, information that could be used to blackmail for millions. But the diver is accidentally killed before he can reveal the sub’s location, so it’s a race to find where it is hidden. It’s a neat idea, but predictable, overlong, and there’s that problem with the good guys being idiotically stupid.

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