Storm Warning (novel)
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| Author | Jack Higgins |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller & War novel |
| Publisher | Harper Collins & Pan |
| Released | 9 August 1976 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 280 pp (hardcover edition)) 240 pp (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-00-222460-7 (hardcover edition) ISBN 0-330-25035-3 (paperback edition) |
Storm Warning is a novel by Jack Higgins.
Storm Warning was the follow up novel to the highly successful 1975 bestseller The Eagle Has Landed.
Higgins takes to the sea in this wartime thriller. Matching the standard of his novels of this period. The setting is the sailing ship, 'Deutschland' and we are placed on it with the rest of the crew.
[edit] Plot introduction
The German merchant ship is attempting to return to Germany from Brazil, this is at the end of August 1944 and across the Atlantic which is full of enemy (i.e. allied) shipping and warships. With a crew of twenty-two men and five nuns as passengers, the boat is wrecked.
The conclusion may be too obvious some is a good example of Higgins descriptive skills.
This is based on a true story.
