Jack Higgins
21) The death trade
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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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English
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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.
25) Edge of danger
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Series
Sean Dillon volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2001]
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
An assassination is planned, but who is the intended victim? Members of the powerful Rashid family plan revenge in a plot worthy of both their British and Arab heritages. This sparks the latest adventure of clandestine operatives Sean Dillon, Blake Johnson, and Hannah Bernstein.
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Sean Dillon volume 22
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English
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 own....
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Series
Sean Dillon volume 14
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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.
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Paul Chavasse volume 6
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English
Description
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...
29) Exocet
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English
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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.
30) A season in hell
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
Description
A young widow, Sarah Talbot, is determined to uncover the suspicious circumstances surrounding her beloved stepson's murder.
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Pub. Date
[1991]
Lexile measure
680L
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English
Description
German intelligence knows that Steiner survived the bungled, top-secret assassination attempt on Winston Churchill, and is now a POW somewhere in London. Reichsfuhrer Himmler wants him back--at any cost. Racing through war-torn Europe, Himmler's top espionage unit gets closer to their target--and to the true betrayal of their mission.
35) The keys of hell
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English
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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...
36) Night of the fox
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Series
Dougal Munro and Jack Carter books volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Possessing knowledge of the D-Day invasion, Colonel Hugh Kelso is washed ashore on the German occupied Jersey Island. Will he be rescued or sacrificed?
On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion....
39) Touch the devil
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English
Description
The Russians are after the blueprints for the latest NATO missile system--and only one man can stop them.
40) Cold harbour
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Series
Dougal Munro and Jack Carter volume 2
Language
English
Description
As D-day approaches in Europe, the Allied command learns of a German staff conference to be held in Brittany at the Chateau de Voincourt, where the Nazis will discuss their Atlantic Wall defense strategy. Foreknowledge of these plans could mean the difference between success and failure for the Allied invasion, and as luck would have it, the chateau happens to be the home of an undercover French Resistance agent, beautiful Anne-Marie Trevaunce.