Jack Higgins
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Sean Dillon volume Book 21
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English
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The past comes back to haunt Sean Dillon and his colleagues, as the New York Times–bestselling master of suspense returns with a knife-edge story of terrorism, revenge, and a very old nemesis.
In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded—but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it.
On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket...
2) Dark justice
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Sean Dillon volume Book 12
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English
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From the master of suspense, a novel about a very different kind of war-with a very different set of rules.
Jack Higgins is "the dean of intrigue novelists," wrote the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about his last novel, Bad Company. "He has no equal." In the words of the Associated Press, "When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd-Jack Higgins."
It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to...
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Sean Dillon volume Book 18
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English
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A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge...
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Sean Dillon volume Book 17
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English
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Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins...
Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the 'Prime Minister's private army' wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson. Somebody is after them: Blake, Harry Miller, his sister, Monica, Harry Salter and Billy. The only people spared are Roper and Dillon. After surviving...
5) Exocet
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English
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Tony Villiers was the hardest, most ruthless man Gabrielle had ever fallen in love with. That was why she had married him, why she had divorced him . . . and why she was horrified to learn that she would be working against him again by order of British Intelligence!
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Sean Dillon volume Book 14
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English
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For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England, but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as he’s just found out to his pain. Rashid’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by his own father and taken to Iraq to be married...
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a heart-stopping, gripping tale set in the dark, violent storm of World War II. In 1943, a British intelligence operative, two American Rangers, an extraordinary woman, and an American Mafia overlord parachute into Nazi-occupied Sicily to convince the Sicilian Mafia king to back invading American forces.
8) Solo
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English
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Behind the image of a Cretan concert pianist lurks the reality of a ruthless killer. However, when his car knocks down and kills the daughter of an SAS soldier, he makes a rare and fatal error. For with a member of the SAS on your heels, it is only a matter of time.
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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A dangerous Loyalist prisoner has escaped from a top-security US prison and is en route to Ireland, with the intention of buying arms and blowing the peace process out of the water. The only man who can avert disaster is IRA enforcer-turned-British secret agent, Sean Dillon.
10) Without mercy
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Sean Dillon volume Book 13
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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On the pavement, Hannah Bernstein was trying to haul herself up, clutching at the railings as Dillon got to her. "You're all right, just hold on to me." But there was blood coming down her face, and he was afraid.
In Jack Higgins's acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down...
11) The death trade
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Sean Dillon volume Book 20
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
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Sean Dillon volume Book 22
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own....
13) Day of reckoning
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Sean Dillon volume Book 8
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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It's all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox. - Here in his eighth adventure, former...
14) Edge of danger
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Sean Dillon volume Book 9
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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Half British and half Arab, Paul Rashid is proud to be both heir to the ancient Dauncey Place in England and the leader of the Rashid Bedouin of Hazar in the Persian Gulf. He is a man for whom family honour is everything. So when he uncovers an international conspiracy that threatens to use any means necessary, including murder, to deprive his family of the oil wealth that is their birthright, he vows to gain vengeance - and to make sure the world...
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Sean Dillon volume Book 7
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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Someone is killing members of splinter group, Sons of Erin. Normally not a major concern but this could lead to the fall of two governments and the derailing of the Irish peace process. Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson join forces to stop the assassin.
16) Midnight runner
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Sean Dillon volume Book 10
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Putnam's
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English
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"Death is the midnight runner." - Arab proverb
Higgins' last novel, Edge of Danger, was "hugely entertaining," said the Los Angeles Times. "The publisher describes it as a powerful thriller, and it's no lie." At its end, the murderous Arab/English Rashid family lay decimated - but not extinct. And that may have been Sean Dillon's fatal error.
Her brothers killed one by one, Kate Rashid swears vengeance on all who have harmed her family. Never mind...
17) A darker place
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Sean Dillon volume Book 16
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."
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Sean Dillon volume Book 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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As Hong Kong prepares for its 1997 return to China, powerful business concerns, including the Mafia, will do anything to stop the return, as a search begins for a mysterious document, the Chungking Covenant, that would allow for an extension of the treaty.
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Sean Dillon volume Book 19
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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"A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary...
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Sean Dillon volume Book 6
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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In Mekong Delta, Jake Cazalet, US Special Forces Officer, rescues a woman. Many years later, someone is using the discovery of what really happened to blackmail him - a move which threatens the world, because Cazalet is now President of the United States.