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Title: The Beagle Has Landed (or, Higgins delivers a dog)
Review: Jack Higgins is just spinning his wheels in this boring "thriller" that recycles his usual cast of characters with very little new interest (and is anyone else besides me getting tired of them?). The "McGuffin" in this book is so weak that one wonders why this crack team of international tough guys even cares about it. Everyone walks through the paces without much reflection or embellishment. I agree with another poster that "SOLO" and "EAGLE" are top-form Higgins and should be where new readers start.The audio version with Patrick Macnee takes it down a notch. I loved P.M. in The Avengers, and he has a great voice, but as a book reader he goes WAY over the top emotionally. Every line of dialog is read with undue intensity, like in a corny stage melodrama, and his Italian accent is so bad that I laughed every time he used it.
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