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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."
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When British intelligence receives a recording of terrorist voices during an Afghanistan ambush in which several soldiers and a medical team were killed, Sean Dillon is put in charge of an ensuing investigation to hunt down the attack's traitorous European commander.
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...
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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The President is coming to London but a fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President. Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in to protect the president, with one very special recruit named Sara Gideon.
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Putnams
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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Blake Johnson joins forces with British agent Harry Miller to investigate acts of terrorism in Kosovo, where the duo stop a Russian officer from burning a mosque and set in motion a series of events that impacts world leaders, ordinary citizens, and Blake and Harry.
8) Bad company
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Wartime secrets threaten to topple a President - in the heart-stopping new adventure featuring Sean Dillon, from the incomparable Jack Higgins - bestselling author of Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest men in the world, developing a secret alliance with the Rashid family - long-time foes...
10) Dark justice
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A fabulous contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure. When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history. It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2017]
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English
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A detective takes on a vengeful ex-con in London's seedy underworld in this classic thriller by the New York Times -bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. After nine years in prison, thief Ben Garvald has been released, and he's headed back to the old neighborhood. His remarried ex-wife and sister-in-law aren't happy about it, and they've asked for police protection. Det. Sgt. Nick Miller, meanwhile, is hopeful; this may be an opportunity to finally...
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At the height of the Cold War, a renegade submarine threatens to ignite Europe in all-out war The French submarine L'Alouette prowls deep beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, its crewmembers eager to spill blood in the service of their frenzied nationalism -- regardless of the cost. And only one man can stop them. That man is Neil Mallory, former lieutenant colonel of the British Special Air Services and Korean War hero. Can Mallory and his...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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English
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A gunrunner's hunt for a fortune leads to a life-and-death struggle in Communist China in New York Times -bestselling author Jack Higgins's very first novel. Mark Hagen is a far cry from the man he once was as a naval officer in World War II. Broken down and drunk, he's been reduced to living outside the law, gunrunning and smuggling with his dilapidated boat. Then he rescues a woman from attackers in Macao. She's alone, she needs help -- and she...
14) Passage by Night
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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English
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In the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a deep-sea diver out for revenge must thwart a deadly terrorist conspiracy Harry Manning fled Cuba for the Bahamas to escape the chaos of the Revolution; to find solace in a bottle of rum and comfort in the arms of his girlfriend, Maria. But when Cuban terrorists bomb a plane in which Maria is traveling, Manning's quest for a separate peace gives way to a thirst for vengeance. To take down the terrorists,...
16) The Iron Tiger
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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English
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A pilot's struggle for survival against both nature and man from the international bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed and The Midnight Bell. Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of the British Navy, he's made a rough-and-tumble living flying wherever the money takes him. But after one last weapons drop to Tibetan guerillas fighting the Communist Chinese, he's ready to hang up his wings. Unfortunately,...
17) Dillinger
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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English
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A novel of the last, desperate days of John Dillinger, America's most notorious bank robber In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost -- some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, speculation about his whereabouts in those mysterious final months never waned. In Jack Higgins's suspenseful imagining,...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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A man out for himself is pulled into a fight for something more in this thriller by the New York Times -bestselling author of the Sean Dillon novels. Hugh Marlowe is a man with a plan. After spending five long years in prison thanks to partners who left him in the lurch with some stolen loot, he's getting out -- and he's going to get his money. But his former friends want it too. And that means Marlowe must go on the run. The small village of Litton...
19) Touch the Devil
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
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[2010]
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English
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The hero of The Eagle Has Landed returns in a Cold War adventure that pits two IRA veterans against a ruthless mercenary whose only ideology is greed. Terrorist-for-hire Frank Barry has been wreaking havoc in Germany and France, with backing from the KGB. His next mission might be his deadliest, as Barry plans to steal a state-of-the-art missile and sell it to the highest bidder. Only Barry's longtime rivals, retired IRA gunman Liam Devlin and his...
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