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Title: Flat Formula
Review: No doubt, the ingredients of a great thriller exist in Day of Reckoning. The villains are evil, the locations are exotic and the heroes are gallant. Unfortunately, all of these assets are thin and flat. The villains are dunces, unable to appreciate or even emotionally react to threats and disasters. The heroes are cool, almost bored. While revenge for a brutal murder is at stake, no real danger threaten them. It's a sleepwalk to the final page.Please understand, I am a big Higgins fan that found the Dillon/Blake partnership to be entertaining in The President's Daughter and The Whitehouse Connection. As a paperback, Day of Recknoning offers some value. I trust Jack Higgins can boost the emotion around a successful formula in future yarns.
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