Cold Harbour is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1990.
Plot summary In May 1944 Brigadier Dougal Munro of the SOE sends beautiful British operative Genevieve Trevaunce to France, with the task of infiltrating General Erwin Rommel's briefing on the defence of the Atlantic Wall. The mission is compromised and it is up to OSS Major Craig Osbourne, a highly trained assassin and Special Forces officer,Jack Higgins, Cold Harbour, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1990, page 54: "She noticed a strange feature of his uniform. On his right sleeve he wore wings with the letters SF in the center which, as she learned later, stood for Special Forces, but underneath he also wore British paratrooper's wings. ". to rescue her.
Release details 1990, USA, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York,
Reception Reviews were mixed. Publishers Weekly called it "an improbable story", with "cardboard" characters and "nothing very new to offer", ultimately judging that Higgins' "reputation for entertaining thrillers [would] not be enhanced" by it.Cold Harbour, reviewed at Publishers Weekly; published January 1, 1990 Kirkus Reviews similarly found its premise to be "(v)ery familiar", but with "twists and hurtling suspense enough to forgive its pure pulp roots."COLD HARBOUR, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews; published February 1, 1989
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