Storm Warning (Higgins novel)

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

Storm Warning
First edition (UK)
AuthorJack Higgins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller & War novel
PublisherCollins (UK)
Holt, Rinehart & Winston (US)
Publication date
9 August 1976
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

Storm Warning is a 1976 novel by Jack Higgins.

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.

gollark: There should be water. Hydration is important, especially when consuming alcohol!
gollark: Or you could just not drink it and distract everyone from noticing this.
gollark: Just substitute your beer for liquescent bees or something safe.
gollark: Being slightly socially disapproved of is almost certainly better than trying to train yourself to be resistant to alcohol, which seems most likely to end in liver damage.
gollark: Which is possible and okay, you see.

References
  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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