Synopses & Reviews
The past comes back to haunt Sean Dillon and his colleagues, as the New York Timesbestselling 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 woundedbut by no means dead. And they intend to prove it.
On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague, Afghan war hero Captain Sara Gideon.
The Chechens do not survive the night, but Dillon is curious as to how they even got on the island. What he discovers sends a chill through his bonesa name from very far back in Dillons past. If this man is working with the terrorists now, the assassination attempt is only the beginningand the next time, the results might be much, much different.
Review
“Jack Higgins is the dean of intrigue novelists. He has no equal.” —
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Higgins makes the pages fly.”—New York Daily News
“When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd—Jack Higgins.”—The Associated Press
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Praise for Jack Higgins
“When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands above the crowd—Jack Higgins.” —Associated Press
“Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
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Praise for RAIN ON THE DEAD
“Higgins is an author with the creative power to hook the reader and keep them forever because of his terrific tales. There are many villains out there, but Higgins is by far the greatest at bringing to life the best and the worst of them all… Avid Higgins readers will enjoy the new package of thrills and chills, because this iconic suspense/thriller writer has most definitely done it again!”—Suspense Magazine
“This is another solid entry in the Sean Dillon series…it has the usual satisfying mixture of action and character. Higgins is a veteran of the genre.”—Booklist
Praise for Jack Higgins
“When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands above the crowd—Jack Higgins.” —Associated Press
“Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
“Jack Higgins is the dean of intrigue novelists. He has no equal.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Synopsis
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 new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed.
For the assassination plan is only the beginning…
About the Author
Since The
Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel
Jack Higgins has written, including his most recent works, has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, among them
The Eagle Has Landed,
To Catch a King,
On Dangerous Ground,
Eye of the Storm, and
Thunder Point.
Higgins, who lived in Belfast until he was twelve, had several close calls with bombs and gunfire at an early age. After leaving school at fifteen, he served three years with the Royal Horse Guards in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Subsequently, he was a circus roustabout, a factory worker, a truck driver, and a laborer, before entering college at age twenty-seven. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Jack Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands.