Cold Harbour (book)

Cold Harbour is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1990.

Cold Harbour
AuthorJack Higgins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Series& Jack Carter
GenreWar, Thriller Novel
PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date
1990
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages304 pp
ISBN0425193209

Plot summary

In May 1944 Brigadier general Dougal Munro of the SOE sends Genevieve Trevaunce, a beautiful British operative, to France with the task of infiltrating General Erwin Rommel's briefing on the defense of the Atlantic Wall. The mission is compromised and it is up to OSS Major Craig Osbourne, a highly trained assassin and Special Forces officer,[1] to rescue her.

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Reception

Reviews were mixed. Publishers Weekly called it "an improbable story", with "cardboard" characters and "nothing very new to offer", ultimately judging that Higgins' "reputation for entertaining thrillers [would] not be enhanced" by it.[2] Kirkus Reviews similarly found its premise to be "(v)ery familiar", but with "twists and hurtling suspense enough to forgive its pure pulp roots."[3]

References
  1. Jack Higgins, Cold Harbour, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, page 54: "She noticed a strange feature of his uniform. On his right sleeve he wore wings with the letters SF in the center which, as she learned later, stood for Special Forces, but underneath he also wore British paratrooper's wings. ".
  2. Cold Harbour, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published January 1, 1990
  3. COLD HARBOUR, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published February 1, 1989


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