JACK HIGGINS

'The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it.' But will it finally toll for Sean Dillon & company in the explosive new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 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. In the Virgin Islands, former president Jake Cazalet receives a warning. He is recuperating on a diving trip after successfully helping Sean Dillon and the rest of the 'Prime Minister's private army' defeat an Al Qaeda operation in London. But though AQ may be weakened and facing competition from other terrorist upstarts, it is far from dead - and it intends to prove it. Soon the ripples from these two events will spread and overlap, not only in Washington but around the world. Everyone involved will find themselves in the most desperate battle of their lives - and the midnight bell will toll.

The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it. " Irish proverbFrom the dean of intrigue novelists ("St. Louis Post-Dispatch") comes a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge.In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge.In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the Prime Minister s private army, fresh from defeating a deadly al-Qaeda operation, receive a warning: You may think you have weakened us, but you have only made us stronger.In Washington, D.C., a special projects director with the CIA, frustrated at not getting permission from the President for his daring anti-terrorism plan, decides to put it in motion anyway. He knows he s right the nation will thank him later.Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake. Desperate men will act, secrets will be revealed and the midnight bell will toll.Filled with event, driven by characters of complexity and passion, "The Midnight Bell "is a remarkable novel from the architect of the modern thriller ("The Huffington Post).""

Nuit noire à Manhattan. Le président des Etats-Unis s'apprête à dîner avec un vieil ami. Dans l'immeuble d'en face, un inconnu a débranché les systèmes de sécurité et se tient à la fenêtr

Chantage, kidnapping, menace terroriste: en s'embarquant vers le Moyen-Orient pour sauver une fillette enlevée à son père et destinée à être mariée de force à un intégriste, l'agent Sean Dillon met le pied sur une mine prête à exploser. Un réseau terroriste aux ramifications internationales, vraisemblablement manipulé par la Russie, dirigé par un fou sanguinaire : Hussein Rashid, alias "Le Marteau de Dieu". De l'Angleterre à l'Irak en passant par l'Algérie, la France et la Belgique, Dillon va devoir jouer avec un ennemi doué d'ubiquité. Au risque d'y laisser sa peau. Et de nous surprendre, une fois de plus.

Outspoken Russian writer Alexander Kurbsky wanted to "disappear" into the West. To avoid the wrath of the ruling elite, he makes elaborate plans with covert experts Charles Ferguson and Sean Dillon for his escape. It's a real coup for the West-except for one thing: Kurbsky is still working for the Russians. And his master plan is about to unfold.

When a series of swift and professional killings target members of the Prime Minister's secret intelligence unit, agent Sean Dillon might be the only one who can get to the bottom of things. All the attacks have the air of a Moscow plan about them, but how can Dillon prove that Putin has masterminded this extensive revenge plot? And with the attacks getting closer and closer to home, Dillon must stay alive along enough to face off with one of the world's most deadly assassins.

Treachery has a price, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times-bestselling author. A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but not all of them - the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down. But Dillon has his own way of doing things and so, he will eventually discover, does his quarry. Dillon will not only be going to war - the war will be coming to him. The fast and furious plot sweeps the reader from Pakistan to Algeria to London to Paris to Ireland, with many deaths along the way. And one familiar, and deadly face from The Wolf at the Door makes a dramatic, and decisive reappearance, in a nerve-jangling story, where the stakes are high, and no one can be trusted.

Popular thriller writer Jack Higgins produces another work of international intrigue, an addition to his series starring British general Charles Ferguson. In this volume, Ferguson, aided by ex-IRA soldier and current British intelligence operative/assassin Sean Dillon, goes after a wealthy Russian megalomaniac responsible for both an attempted assassination of the American president and the funding of Islamic terrorists.