Storm Warning (Higgins novel)

Storm Warning is a 1976 novel by Jack Higgins The novel was Higgins's next after his 1975 bestseller The Eagle Has Landed.

Storm Warning
First edition (UK)
AuthorJack Higgins
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller & War novel
PublisherCollins (UK)
Holt, Rinehart & Winston (US)
Publication date
9 August 1976
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages280 pp (hardcover edition))
240 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN0-00-222460-7 (hardcover edition)
ISBN 0-330-25035-3 (paperback edition)
OCLC2681211
823/.9/14
LC ClassPZ4.H6367 St PR6058.I343
Preceded byThe Eagle Has Landed 
Followed byThe Valhalla Exchange 

Plot

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A German sailing ship, Deutschland, with a crew of twenty-two men and with five nuns as passengers, attempts to return to Germany from Brazil at the end of August 1944.

After crossing the Atlantic and avoiding enemy shipping, the Deutschland is severely battered by a storm and then wrecked off the Outer Hebrides. A disparate group of characters from both sides comes to the crew's rescue. [1]

Reception

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Kirkus Reviews stated that Storm Warning was: "something of a letdown" after The Eagle Has Landed.[2]

Film adaptation

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In January 1977 it was announced that Columbia had bought the film rights and Peter Guber would produce a movie version.[3] However no film resulted.


References

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  1. ^ Higgins, Jack (2000), Storm warning (reissue ed.), Berkley, p. 286, ISBN 978-0-425-17607-8
  2. ^ "Storm Warning". Kirkus. 20 September 1976. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  3. ^ David Rudkin's 'Ashes' Moves To the Public Theater Jan. 25 New York Times 3 Jan 1977: 25.