A GAME FOR HEROES!AUGUST WEST GIVES US THE RUNDOWN ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE JACK HIGGIN’S NOVELS (AS BY JAMES GRAHAM) OVER AT HIS VINTAGE HARDBOILED READS BLOG . . .
Nowadays, when I pick up a Harry Patterson novel, I feel like I'm going home again. Be it under the name of Patterson, Jack Higgins, Hugh Marlowe, or James Graham, the author continually delivers exciting plots with risk venturing characters. In my youth I've read so many of his early thrillers that reading one now I get a bittersweet longing for those days. The excellent "A Game for Heroes" is one of those and it's aptly titled because heroes and heroics fill the novel. But the tale really revolves around one and his name is Owen Morgan. And how can you not love this British Ops Specialist, with his scarred face, wearing a patch to cover his lost eye, the deadly tricks he does with his spring-loaded knife, and the numerous dangerous missions found in his dossier . . .
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