Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #117218 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction. Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked. Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he? Maybe it would all have been easier to take if he really had been mad

Customer Reviews

Higgins at his best
Men like action. Well men like me anyway. 'Toll for the Brave' is a guilty pleasure, written by Higgins under an alias in the early 70s this book was never meant to be compared to the liked of 'The Eagle Has Landed'. Ellis Jackson is a failed English soldier who decides to join the US Marines instead and get shipped out to Vietnam. This story tells us about his capture, escape and more importantly, how he lives his life back in Blighty.

Things have not gone well for Jackson, he is an alcoholic and he has just woken up after a flashback with two corpses! Did he murder them or is the past haunting him for real?

Higgins takes us on a rollercoaster of an action adventure as our likable hero fights to clear his name. The book is nothing but sheer fun and should not be taken seriously but I still think it is one of the best Jack Higgins that I have read and shows what a talent he was at his peak.

Worth hunting down for Higgins and action fans alike.