L'aigle a disparu

Jack Higgins. Tome 2

Angleterre, novembre 1943.Un officier allemand, Kurt Steiner, est au secret dans la tour de Londres. Il est le seul survivant d'une mission - nom de code "Aigle" - qui aurait pu changer le cours de l'histoire.Pour le général SS Scchellenberg, engagé dans une lutte secrète avec Himmler, seul un homme peut réussir à le faire évader : Liam Devlin, mercenaire irlandais aussi séduisant que dangereux. Mais celui-ci doit tout ignorer des intérêts en jeu...

The master of the game is back, with another pulse-pounding adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon

 Whilst checking up on the volatile situation in Kosovo the US President's right-hand man Blake Johnson meets Major Harry Miller, a member of the British Cabinet. Miller is there doing his own checks for the British Prime Minister.

 When both men get involved with a group of Russian soldiers about to commit an atrocity, Miller puts and end to the scuffle with a bullet in the forehead of the ring-leader.

 But this action has dire consequences not only for Miller and Johnson but their associates too, including Britain's Sean Dillon, and all the way to the top of the British, Russian and United States governments.

 Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is over, many will be dead.

Rough Justice

Lady Kate Rashid est l'une des femmes les plus riches du monde, mais aussi la plus dangereuse. Unique survivante d'un immense empire pétrolier du Golfe persique, elle a échappé par miracle aux services secrets américains lorsqu'ils ont déjoué l'attentat que les Rashid préparaient contre le Président des États-Unis.
La seule erreur de la CIA a sans doute été d'avoir laissé la vie sauve à Lady Kate. Prête à tout pour venger les siens, elle n'acceptera aucun compromis. Et elle seule sait où et quand elle frappera.

Midnight runner

Modern fictionIt's 1944 and Germany is facing its final defeat. Five thousand miles across the Allied dominated Atlantic, twenty-two men and five nuns aboard the Barquentine Deutschland are battling home to Kiel. Allies and enemies, men and women, the hunters and the haunted all drawn into the eye of the storm.

Storm Warning

The Irish Peace Process is about to be blown sky-high and the fates of two governments hang in the balance, as the crack team of the THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER is reunited in this explosive thriller.

 New York: a woman waits in the shadows, a Colt .25 in her elegant hand. Her target: Senator Michael Cohan, member of an extremist organization dedicated to destroying the peace talks. Run by Britain's most wanted terrorist, Jack Barry, its secret links stretch all the way to the Oval Office.

 Washington: The President calls Blake Johnson, head of secret White House department, 'the Basement'. He needs to see him now.

 London: Brigadier Ferguson of Special Forces brings in the only man who can hold it together and stop all hell breaking loose - ex-IRA enforcer Sean Dillon, their most lethal operative, and Jack Barry's deadliest enemy.

The White House Connection

L'irlandais

In Jack Higgins's new Mafia, no one wears gold chains or carries a tommy gun. Deals are done quietly and often resemble those in the "legal" business world. In fact, the tentacles of the Cosa Nostra extend into the most public of industries, including TV, film, and publishing.
When Truth magazine reporter Katherine Johnson starts looking too closely at the life of millionaire socialite and mob boss Jack Fox, however, the veneer of gentility dissolves immediately. Her body is found one morning floating in the East River, and the coroner suspects foul play.Wrenched by the pain of his loss, her ex-husband--former FBI agent Blake Johnson--decides to take the law into his own hands. In fact, as part of the secret White House department known as The Basement, Blake actually has the president's permission to take out Fox in the best way he sees fit. As Blake begins his Fox hunt, Day of Reckoning evolves into an international duel between the masterminds of justice and criminality. Blake struggles to exact his revenge by slowly undermining his opponents' businesses. And Fox matches him at every turn.While the contest between the power brokers is compelling on the surface, Higgins is unable to infuse his characters with enough life to make the story as engaging as it might have been. The heroes and villains borrow heavily from the classic James Bond play book, complete with brandy snifters, brandname cigarettes, Saville Row suits, and secret, world-dominating empires. It's fun to read as a sort of homage to thrillers of the early Cold War period, but Day of Reckoning never matches the success of such earlier Higgins greats as The Eagle Has Landed and seems to fall all too frequently into cliché. --Patrick O'Kelley

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