UTTER RUBBISH. This is truly a dire book. What to start with first? Well it would seem that Jack Higgins has been living in the middle of the Amazon rain forest for the last 40 years! This is a secret service type novel, where the good guys and the bad guys, (Islamic terrorists, IRA terrorists, Russian Mafia) all use the same weapons, Walther PPK's and Colt .25's with the odd Uzi and AK 47. Like anyone would use these pop guns (Walther and Colt .25). One of the good guys drives around in an Aston Martin. Me thinks Mr Jack Higgins has been reading a little too much Ian Fleming (James Bond). It is just a shame he did not pick up any writing tips.
The good guys drive to Kent, from central London, to fly to Sussex. Now that's just insane, given that the drive direct to Sussex would only take another 30-60 minutes, if that. The list of poor researched facts, grammar and typo's justs goes on and on.
If there was ever a book that needed recycling into toilet paper then, this is it.
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The master of suspense returns, with a chilling novel of modern terrorism and revenge.
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known.
The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father and taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East's most feared terrorists. Dillon has had his own run-ins with that clan, and when the distraught man begs Dillon for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores-but he has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die-and Dillon may be one of them.
Filled with dark suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, this novel once again proves that in the words of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Jack Higgins is the dean of intrigue novelists. He has no equal."
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