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    The Keys of Hell
    The Keys of Hell
    The Keys of Hell
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Keys of Hell

    Written by Jack Higgins

    Narrated by Michael Page

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    British expatriate Paul Chavasse is about as tough as they come. For years, he has made a dangerous living running men and intelligence across the Adriatic Sea from Italy to the communist country of Albania. But his ideals are about to be tested—more than he ever thought possible.

    The Albanian government, seeking to crush a religious resurgence within its borders, wants to find and destroy the Madonna of Scutari—a legendary statue of ebony and gold that has protected the faithful for a thousand years. Before government forces capture them, priests hide the carving deep in the marshes along the coast.

    Now, Paul Chavasse must outrun an entire army in a race to save the priceless relic—and the lives of thousands of believers.…

    “Higgins makes the pages fly.” —New York Daily News

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 15, 2011
    ISBN9781441845429
    The Keys of Hell
    Author

    Jack Higgins

    Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.

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      Another example of Higgins early work where he has written a new framework around an old story.Paul Chavasse in his 3rd outing under Higgins’s pen takes on a mission to help a woman he meets at an embassy dinner. She reports that she is trying to get ‘The Black Madonna’ (A religious statue) out of Albania but her brother has been killed in the process and the boat sunk deep in the Albanian Marshes.Enlisting the help of a colleague he goes in search of the lost idol. However, things and people are not what they seem and what follows is a tale of deception, deceit and death. A few nice twists but the story is one that I have read several times before from Higgins (Sad wind from the Sea & The Khufra Run).A nice try but doesn’t do it for me.