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(0)Jack Higgins
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Sean Dillon volume 9
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Master thriller writer Jack Higgins plunges his hugely popular hero into his ninth adventure - racing against time to prevent an assassination that would shock the world. When Paul Rashid, leader of the Rashid Bedouin of Hazar in the Persian Gulf, uncovers an international conspiracy to deprive his family of the oil wealth that is their birthright, he vows to gain a very public vengeance. The man sent to stop him is the British Government?s uncompromising...
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Penguin
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2005
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Operation Eagle was to be the most daring enemy mission of the entire war. Himmler planned to kidnap Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But in that remote corner of Norfolk, an elite unit is also put together to begin the countdown to the invasion. A brilliant adventure in which the reader' sympathies are enlisted as much for the German heroes as for the English defenders.
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HarperCollins
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2019
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At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in a civil war of its own. The struggle between the wealthy landlords and the impoverished tenant farmers is growing in intensity, and having just fought and lost a terrible war, Clay wants to avoid the coming conflict. But after witnessing the atrocities that the landowners visit...
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HarperCollins
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2019
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July 1940. England prepares for invasion, all eyes focused on its borders.But such focus inevitably leaves gaps elsewhere, and Hitler sees an opportunity to carry out an audacious plot that would change the course of the war?The Duke of Windsor, brother to King George VI and former ruler of the United Kingdom in his own right, is a target.Hitler?s intention: to kidnap him and hold him ransom - the ultimate leverage against an embattled and beleaguered...
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Sean Dillon volume 22
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The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it. But will it finally toll for Sean Dillon and company in the explosive new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Jack Higgins.
14) Rain on the dead
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The story begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of the 'Prime Minister's Private Army' prevents it becoming a bloodbath. Soon they are on the trail of the perpetrators, confident they will catch them. What Dillon & Co don't realize is that they have just sprung a trap that will lead them to almost certain death. For there is a new Master pulling the...
15) The death trade
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The world's most dangerous man has escaped - and it's up to Sean Dillon and Co to find him, before he falls into the hands of Al Qaeda. When the head of Iran's nuclear weapons programme absconds he is hunted by everyone: the Iranians, Al Qaeda and Sean Dillon's team of specialists. Travelling from London, Paris, and the Middle East to the desert wastes of North Africa, it becomes a must-win race. Because what the scientist knows could be used to save...
16) The Judas gate
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A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence. It contains battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which 12 U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down.
18) A darker place
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Disillusioned with the Putin Government, famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper Alexander Kurbsky decides he wants to disappear into the West. It's a real coup for the West - except for one thing: Kurbsky is still working for the Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American intelligence at the highest levels.
20) Dark justice
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005
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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 is on a trail that leads him to England, Russia and Iraq.