About the author
Jack Higgins spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, serving on the East German border during the Cold War, before becoming a bestselling author with The Eagle Has Landed.
About the book
Toll for the Brave is a tale of deception, treachery and murder, in which one man fights to prove his sanity and innocence, while others strive to silence him for good.
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Betrayed by his lover, beaten and almost broken by his captors, Ellis Jackson escapes from the Vietcong with his best friend, James Maxwell St Claire. Dodging bullets, they finally break free from a living hell. Some years later, back in England, Ellis wakes to find himself holding a 12-bore shotgun surrounded by staring faces. In the next room, his mistress and James are both dead.
Has he succumbed to the madness that he first endured at the hands of the Vietcong? Or is he being set up?