Storm Warning (Higgins novel)

Storm Warning
	First edition (UK)
Author	Jack Higgins
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Thriller & War novel
Publisher	Collins (UK); Holt, Rinehart & Winston (US)
Publication date	9 August 1976
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	280 pp (hardcover edition)); 240 pp (paperback edition)
ISBN	0-00-222460-7 (hardcover edition); ISBN 0-330-25035-3 (paperback edition)
OCLC	2681211
Dewey Decimal	823/.9/14
LC Class	PZ4.H6367 St PR6058.I343

Storm Warning is a 1976 novel by Jack Higgins.

Storm Warning was the follow-up novel to the highly successful 1975 bestseller The Eagle Has Landed.

Higgins takes to the sea in this wartime thriller which matches the standard of his novels of this period. The setting is the sailing ship, 'Deutschland' and we are placed on it with the rest of the crew.

Plot introduction[]

A German Barque merchant ship is attempting to return to Germany from Brazil at the end of August 1944 via a crossing of the Atlantic which is full of enemy shipping and warships. With a crew of twenty-two men and five nuns as passengers, the boat makes its remarkable journey, but after being severely battered by a storm, is wrecked off the coast of Scotland on the Washington Reef in the Outer Hebrides.^[1]

The conclusion may sound familiar to some as Higgins has obviously taken some ideas (especially the ones regarding the shipwreck) from an earlier novel he wrote called 'A Game For Heroes', in which German soldiers and British citizens try to rescue the crew of a ship that has foundered off the coast of the Jersey islands.

Once again, the protagonists are enemies that come together to help each other in time of need.

Film adaptation[]

In January 1977 it was announced that Columbia had bought the film rights and Peter Guber would produce a movie version.^[2] However no film resulted.

References[]

^ Higgins, Jack (2000), Storm warning (reissue ed.), Berkley, p. 286, ISBN 978-0-425-17607-8
^ David Rudkin's 'Ashes' Moves To the Public Theater Jan. 25 New York Times 3 Jan 1977: 25.

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[1] Higgins, Jack (2000), Storm warning (reissue ed.), Berkley, p. 286, ISBN 978-0-425-17607-8

[2] David Rudkin's 'Ashes' Moves To the Public Theater Jan. 25 New York Times 3 Jan 1977: 25.

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