Jack Higgins
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Open Road Media
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2010
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English
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An intelligence officer fights to save his sister from the mob in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stavrou in order to gain her freedom:...
Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stavrou in order to gain her freedom:...
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Three classic international-bestselling thrillers featuring IRA gunman Liam Devlin. In The Eagle Has Landed, the inspiration for the film starring Donald Sutherland, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II. In November 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: Abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler...
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At the height of the Cold War, a renegade submarine threatens to ignite Europe in all-out war The French submarine L'Alouette prowls deep beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, its crewmembers eager to spill blood in the service of their frenzied nationalism-regardless of the cost. And only one man can stop them. That man is Neil Mallory, former lieutenant colonel of the British Special Air Services and Korean War hero. Can Mallory and his...
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One man's race to recover a hidden treasure becomes a struggle for survival against a violent criminal underworld Hugh Marlowe spent five years in prison thinking only of the fortune he'd stashed away before being thrown behind bars. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't the only one. Now the worst of London's gangsters and criminals are after Marlowe and his hidden bounty. And in order to leave behind his life of lawless abandon, Marlowe must outwit...
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A bartender and nightclub singer are thrown into the midst of a treacherous Nazi plot in war-torn Lisbon. As the Nazi war machine prepares to invade England, Hitler plots to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor while they travel in Portugal, and install them as puppet monarchs under the thumb of his fascist regime. But when an American bartender and a young Jewish nightclub singer catch wind of the scheme, they set out to derail the Nazi conspiracy....
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An ex-con must save Northern Ireland from a violent cabal, before the nation is plunged into chaos Former IRA operative Martin Fallon has survived prison, the bottle, and a police pursuit that sent him running the length and breadth of Ireland. As Fallon turns forty years old, the IRA needs his help again, this time to break Patrick Rogan, the leader of IRA Ulster, out of prison before he is executed. But not all is as it seems. When a newly freed...
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An imprisoned IRA soldier sets out to make a daring heist-with the fate of Northern Ireland's Republican cause resting in the balance Seven years ago, Sean Rogan's dedication to the Irish Republican Army landed him in a high-security prison. When the organization needs his help again, Rogan stages a daring jailbreak, determined to intercept an armored truck and deliver its payload to IRA leader Colum O'More. But the IRA of years past is long...
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After a harrowing betrayal, a soldier fights for redemption In the darkest days of World War II, Captain Hugh Lomax was Greece's last hope to drive the Nazis from the island of Kyros. His daring mission, and its brilliant success, should have ensured Lomax a hero's welcome when he returned to Kyros years later. Instead, he discovers that his allies on the island have been executed and the survivors manipulated to believe that he had betrayed them....
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed: An IRA hit man tries to walk the razor's edge when he finds himself the odd man out. In these edge-of-your-seat international thrillers, Jack Higgins introduces his profoundly conflicted and deeply flawed IRA hero, Martin Fallon, trapped in a life of violence and fighting for redemption. Cry of the Hunter: After joining the IRA, Martin Fallon shot up the ranks in the fight against...
10) Dillinger
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A novel of the last, desperate days of John Dillinger, America's most notorious bank robber In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost-some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, speculation about his whereabouts in those mysterious final months never waned. In Jack Higgins's suspenseful imagining,...
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A former POW hunts for the truth behind a web of murder, betrayal, and treason In the midst of the Korean War, Martin Shane and five others were captured as POWs and tormented by the cruel Colonel Li. One of them revealed military secrets in return for freedom, but before Shane could uncover his identity, a violent explosion wiped his memory and confined him to the sterile halls of a mental institution. When he suddenly regains his memory six years...
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A former intelligence operative must stop a group of ruthless Russian spies from obtaining Britain's newest and deadliest high-tech missile. For ten years, Paul Chavasse was one of Britain's most promising intelligence agents. But when a botched mission in Albania destroyed him physically and psychologically, he was discharged from the agency a broken man. To regain his life of adventure, Chavasse trains under Chinese martial arts master Yuan Tao,...
13) Passage by Night
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In the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a deep-sea diver out for revenge must thwart a deadly terrorist conspiracy Harry Manning fled Cuba for the Bahamas to escape the chaos of the Revolution; to find solace in a bottle of rum and comfort in the arms of his girlfriend, Maria. But when Cuban terrorists bomb a plane in which Maria is traveling, Manning's quest for a separate peace gives way to a thirst for vengeance. To take down the terrorists,...
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A veteran agent goes undercover to stop a wave of prison escapes orchestrated by a sinister criminal network A mysterious man known as the Baron is the mastermind behind a spate of daring jailbreaks that have set the British Intelligence Service on edge. Only Paul Chavasse, a brilliant operative who can think like a criminal, can prevent the escape of another of Britain's most dangerous inmates. Chavasse must pose as a prisoner and win the trust...
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Framed for a grisly murder, one man must descend into London's criminal underground to uncover the truth behind a deadly conspiracy When a young woman approaches Matt Brady from the shadows of the London night and invites him to accompany her back to her London apartment, it seems like a dream. But the next morning he awakes to a nightmare: the woman's body lies dead on the floor, and the police are hauling him off to prison for a murder he did not...
16) Dark justice
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A fabulous contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure. When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history. It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon...
17) Bad company
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When Hitler's secret diary resurfaces, revealing a plot between the United States and Germany to join forces against the Soviet Union, White House operative Blake Johnson acts to secure the diary and keep it hidden.
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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....
19) The Judas Gate
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General Charles Ferguson, Commander of the British Prime Minister's private hit squad and adviser to the new president of the United States, has been given a disturbing recording from Afghanistan, on which the murders of American Army Rangers and a British medical team are recorded. About half of the Taliban force voices on the tape are British. One authoritative voice is Irish; code name: Shamrock.
Shocked that one of their own could be responsible
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