Storm Warning (Higgins novel)

For other novels, see Storm Warning (disambiguation) § Literature.

Storm Warning

First edition (UK)
Author	Jack Higgins
Language	English
Genre	Thriller & War novel
Publisher	Collins (UK) Holt, Rinehart & Winston (US)
Publication date	9 August 1976
Publication place	United Kingdom
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
Preceded by	The Eagle Has Landed
Followed by	The Valhalla Exchange

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

Plot

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

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

Film adaptation

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

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.