Crime & Mystery
Night of the Fox is on my Want to Read shelf mostly because the premise does the right sort of work: D-Day, impersonation, and that thin line between disguise and collapse.
That kind of setup can be very effective if the tension stays tight and the atmosphere earns its keep. Higgins usually knows how to move a thriller along, but the wartime backdrop matters here more than the mechanics. If it feels lived-in, not just borrowed for urgency, it could be exactly the sort of crime-adjacent suspense I go for.
That kind of setup can be very effective if the tension stays tight and the atmosphere earns its keep. Higgins usually knows how to move a thriller along, but the wartime backdrop matters here more than the mechanics. If it feels lived-in, not just borrowed for urgency, it could be exactly the sort of crime-adjacent suspense I go for.
Higgins is usually better when the machinery is doing something slightly grubby underneath the polish. With a premise like this, the interesting bit isn’t just the disguise, it’s whether the book lets the stress show through it.
Wartime thrillers can get too tidy if they only care about the mission clock. The best ones leave a bit of moral mess on the floor.
Wartime thrillers can get too tidy if they only care about the mission clock. The best ones leave a bit of moral mess on the floor.