Jack Higgins
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Sean Dillon volume 13
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When detective superintendent Hannah Bernstein is murdered, grief-stricken intelligence operatives Sean Dillon, Blake, and Ferguson set out to catch the killer, unaware that their efforts will have a life-changing impact.
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On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier, who is also a bit more than that, takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, when a man comes up fast behind...
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A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky is fed up with the Putin government and decides he wants to "disappear" into the West; it's a real coup for the West except for one thing: Kurbsky is still working for the Russians.
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Sent to Kosovo on a mission, agent Blake Johnson joins forces with British operative Harry Miller to stop a Russian officer in the act of torching a mosque, a lethal action that will have profound repercussions for both agents.
Intrigue in the halls of power, blood in the streets -- the master of suspense returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds. Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted...
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In Britain, agent Sean Dillon is ordered to destroy "January 30," a terrorist organization spreading chaos to pave the way for a new Communist state. The group is led by a British actress--the angel of the title--who assassinates people with a machine pistol from the saddle of her motorcycle. By the author of The Eagle Has Landed.
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In 1992, the briefcase carried by ex-Reichsleiter Martin Bormann in his escape from Germany to South America in 1945 is discovered in the wreck of the submarine used in the escape. In it is a document signed by the Duke of Windsor revealing a plan for him to ascend the British throne upon a successful German invasion of Britain. Terrorist Sean Dillon is recruited by his former nemesis Brigadier Charles Ferguson to keep a high British official from...
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Former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon, now a British secret service agent, is ordered to recover a shipment of gold from a sunken barge before the Protestant paramilitary do so. The Protestants, who stole the gold in the first place, intend to use it to escalate the war and scuttle the peace talks.
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Paul Chavasse volume 6
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The body was dragged out of the English Channel in a local fishing boat's net. After six weeks on the seabed, weighed down by 70 pounds of chain, there wasn't a lot left of gangland boss Harvey Preston, but what was there made Paul Chavasse's stomach turn.
Following the success of the repackaged and retitled Higgins classic The Bormann Testament, we continue the action with Special Agent Paul Chavasse. Now his investigation into the murder of a gangland...
10) Midnight runner
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2002.
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Even though her brothers tried to assassinate the President of the United States, Kate Rashid is determined to make those responsible for killing her brothers pay with their lives and embarks on a mission of vengeance.
11) The death trade
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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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"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...
13) The keys of hell
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British expatriate Paul Chavasse is about as tough as they come. For years, he has made a dangerous living running men and intelligence across the Adriatic Sea from Italy to the communist country of Albania. But his ideals are about to be tested. The Albanian government, seeking to crush a religious resurgence within its borders, wants to find and destroy the Madonna of Scutari, a legendary statue of ebony and gold that has protected the faithful...
14) Dark justice
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Sean Dillon volume 12
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Sean Dillon volume 22
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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....
16) Bad company
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Sean Dillon volume 11
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2003.
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The story is the sequel to Higgins's last novel, Midnight runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it's threatening to resurface, with explosive contents ...
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[1997]
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An Israeli terrorist abducts the U.S. president's illegitimate daughter--born of a liaison during the Vietnam War--and threatens to kill her if the U.S. does not attack Arab countries. The president hires a former IRA terrorist to rescue her.
18) Eye of the storm
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Sean Dillon volume 1
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Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of diguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses ... and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening - and true - event: Iraq's attempted mortar attack on...
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British agent Charles Ferguson is sent to recover the stolen Chunking Covenant. In it Mao TseTung agreed to extend British rule in Hong Kong for another century if the Communists won. Publication of the document by hostile elements could spark riots in Hong Kong and lead to armed intervention by China.
20) Exocet
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Just prior to the outbreak of the British-Argentinian War, the Argentinians plot to steal British Exocet missiles and in order to thwart the scheme, DI5's London head orders Tony Villiers on the most dangerous mission of his life.