Adventure / thrillerThe classic bestseller, featuring Harry Manning in the Cuban revolution. Reissue.

Passage by Night

Confessionnal

Reissue of the timeless Higgins classic.

 Martin Fallon was one of the legendary heroes of the Organisation. A fighter in his teens, and a leader north of the border in his twenties. By the age of forty he'd spent nine years in prison, turned to the bottle and almost turned his back on the gun.

 The trouble is, the war isn't over. And everyone wants Fallon back.

 The Ulster Constabulary, who still have a king's ransom on his head. His own colleagues, who use the dirtiest trick in the book to return their top operator to the front line. And a beautiful woman named Anne Murray: the only confessor to the demons that a terrorist like Fallon will carry to the grave.

Cry of the Hunter

A thriller from the author of "The Keys of Hell", "Pay the Devil" and "A Fine Night for Dying".

Toll for the brave

Sean Dillon is a master terrorist, an elusive, mysterious figure whose skills surpass even those of famed international fugitive Carlos the Jackal. For years Dillon has slipped through the hands of authorities on every continent, hiding in the anonymity of the underworld. But it is during the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein is feeling the grip of the British and American forces closing in on him, that Dillon once again emerges -- right into the eye of Saddam's storm.Hired by Iraqi operatives to strike a blow against the allied forces, Dillon plots an attempt on Margaret Thatcher's life. His ultimate goal, though, is a mortar launch against the War Cabinet during a meeting at 10 Downing Street. As Dillon's plan progresses, his longtime nemesis Martin Brosnan, an American Special Forces hero who has known Dillon from his IRA days, is recruited by British intelligence to nail him. Just as Dillon is within Brosnan's grasp, he slips away again. Step by step, a deadly cat-and-mouse game unfolds, although the odds are stacking up against Dillon's capture.As the clock begins to tick, Eye of the Storm accelerates with heart-stopping suspense, hurtling the reader toward the novel's spectacular, unexpected conclusion.

oeil du typhon: roman

SEAN DILLON'S CHOICE: LIFE IN PRISON OR A SUICIDE MISSION.

 A diver discovers a priceless treasure off Thunder Point: a German U-boat containing proof that Martin Bormann escaped from Hitler's bunker, bearing the most explosive secrets of the Third Reich.

 Among them: the names of British Nazi sympathisers - some of them pillars of the establishment - and the devastating document known as the Windsor Protocol.

 For the sake of national security, the U-boat must be destroyed, no questions asked.

 Sean Dillon, Britain's most wanted terrorist, is about to be made an offer he cannot refuse.

Thunder Point

From the bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a heart-stopping, gripping tale set in the dark, violent storm of World War II. In 1943, a British intelligence operative, two American Rangers, an extraordinary woman, and an American Mafia overlord parachute into Nazi-occupied Sicily to convince the Sicilian Mafian king to back invading American forces.

Luciano

Fixée à 1997, la rétrocession à la chine populaire du territoire de Hong Kong contrecarre de grands intérêts financiers. Or voici que les services secrets anglais apprennent l'existence d'un protocole secret, signé en 1944 entre mao Tsé-toung et Lord Mountbatten, aux termes duquel ce paradis des affaires pourrait demeurer anglais un siècle de plus...POur Sean Dillon, l'agnet bien connu des lecteurs de Jack Higgins, une mission : retrouver coûte que coûte ce document, caché quelque part en Ecosse, afin qu'il solit détruit.Il rencontrera sur sa route la Mafia américaine, bien décidée, elle, à s'en emparer et à le rendre public - quitte à compromettre gravement les relations sino-occidentales...

Terrain dangereux (Sean Dillon, #3)

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 fenêtre, fusil à la main. Sa tentative d'assassinat échoue, mais les commanditaires ont mis sur pied un réseau souterrain dont l'objectif est de faire régner la terreur. Leur champ d'action est vaste, leurs identités secrètes, leurs méthodes subtiles. Chargés de remonter la piste, les agents Sean Dillon et Blake Johnson croient avoir identifié le coupable. Mais derrière cet homme, s'en cache un autre, puis un autre encore. Et le dernier n'aime pas que l'on se mêle de ses affaires. Dillon, Johnson et les services secrets sont au cœur de sa cible. Bientôt, l'un d'eux tombera.

Passage by Night

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