Jack Higgins
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 22
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 8
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
"Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox - but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department known as The Basement, and with the President's permission, the former FBI agent is about to take revenge. Wherever the money trail leads - New York, England, Ireland, the Middle East - Johnson and his...
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 3
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Description
Sean Dillon, terrorist-turned-hero, and Brigadier General Charles Ferguson are under direct orders from the prime minister to stop the Chungking Covenant from coming to light, and jeopardizing the future of Hong Kong.
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 5
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In 1985, off the northwest coast of England, an audacious hijacking by Irish Protestant paramilitaries culminates in the disappearance of one hundred million pounds in gold bullion. En route to Ireland, the seagoing barge "Irish Rose" capsizes and sinks under mysterious circumstances. Michael Ryan, the mastermind behind the plot, his niece Kathleen, and the mysterious Martin Keogh survive the disaster.
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 16
Pub. Date
2009.
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Description
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."
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 10
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Never mind that they had tried to murder the U.S. President, Arab-English Kate Rashid swears vengence for her brothers.
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 7
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Blake Johnson, head of the secret White House intelligence department known as The Basement, and British operative Sean Dillon team up to discover who is killing off the members of a splinter terrorist group known as the Sons of Erin, and in the process disrupting the Irish peace process.
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 9
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Blake Johnson, head of a clandestine White House operation, and his Irish colleague Sean Dillon work together to stop a murderous vendetta aimed at the president of the United States, who is blamed for a series of attacks on a ruthless Arab-British dynasty.
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 17
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Description
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, approachers 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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Fresh from his mission in THE JUDAS GATE to seek out and eliminate one of al Qaeda's most valued agents, a traitor responsible for countless soldiers' deaths in Afghanistan, Sean Dillon is back in a blistering new adventure. The American President, on a planned visit to Europe, is entertained by the British Prime Minister on the terrace of the House of Commons. On the same day, London born Mullah Ali Salim makes an impassioned speech at Hyde Park...
12) Thunder point
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
British agents search for the secret diaries of Martin Bormann that reveal British Nazi sympathizers and the secret plan Protocol.
13) 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...
14) Rain on the dead
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Pub. Date
2014.
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The killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded but by no means dead. Two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States. Jake 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...
15) Without mercy
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 13
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Description
"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 in the street. Both were expected to survive-but only one of them does."--Jacket.
16) Angel of death
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 4
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Description
They call themselves "January 30," after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are allied with no one, killing American diplomats and KGB agents, Arabs and Israelis, IRA gunmen and Loyalist soldiers. But they are definitely the enemies of peace - and they are plotting an assassination that will shatter the uneasy truce that reigns in Ireland. Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon must hunt down January 30 before they kill again. Before they spark...
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 6
Pub. Date
1998, c1997
Description
The president of the United States discovers he has a daughter from an affair with a Vietnamese woman whose husband had been reported dead. Then kidnappersstrike, threatening to execute the girl if he uses American security to track them down. Only Sean Dillon and an elite FBI agent have the president's confidence to act.
18) Sharp shot
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Series
Rich and Jade volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
British twins Rich and Jade Chance are back for a third adventure with their spy father as they try to save the Middle East and the President of the United States from a terrorist government coup.
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 14
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Entreated for help by an English-Bedouin man whose thirteen-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and forced to marry a terrorist, intelligence operative Sean Dillon finds his willing assistance sparking a deadly chain of events.
20) Death run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A Mafia banker with access to a large number of criminal accounts is willing to give evidence in exchange for help retiring from the mob, but when spy John Chase assists him, he puts his fifteen-year-old twins, Rich and Jade, in the line of fire.