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Author | Jack Higgins |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Thriller & War novel |
Publisher | Collins (UK) Holt, Rinehart & Winston (US) |
Publication date | 9 August 1976 |
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 |
823/.9/14 | |
LC Class | PZ4.H6367 St PR6058.I343 |
Preceded by | The Eagle Has Landed |
Followed by | The Valhalla Exchange |
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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]
Kirkus Reviews stated that Storm Warning was: "something of a letdown" after The Eagle Has Landed. [2]
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.
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