Modern fictionThe Valhalla Exchange is a classic World War II thriller. Out of print for over twenty years it has now been given a contemporary new style to bring it in line with other bestselling Higgins titles.

Valhalla Exchange

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.

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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

Jack Higgins Le Secret du Président Vingt ans plus tôt, à Saigon, Jake Cazalet a vécu avec une Française une aventure brève et ardente, qu'il n'a jamais oubliée. Devenu président des états-Unis, il voit ressurgir ce passé de la façon la plus bouleversante en  la personne de Marie, une fille née de cette idylle. Il ne l'a jamais su.
Malheureusement, d'autres que lui détiennent ce secret. Un groupe de fanatiques de l'extrême droite israélienne compte bien s'en servir pour exercer le plus terrible des chantages.
Deux hommes - Sean Dillon, l'agent britannique d'origine irlandaise, et Blake Johnson, patron d'une cellule de crise secrète de la Maison-Blanche - ont pour mission de sauver à la fois la paix et la fille du Président.
Mais comment oe Un suspense plus implacable que jamais, signé par l'auteur d'Opération Cornouailles.

Le secret du president

The master of intrigue and suspense reunites the unforgettable team of his smash bestseller The President's Daughter to stop an unidentified assassin -- a woman who walks the streets of Manhattan, stalking the members of a secret political organization...and killing them, one by one.
New York: Late at night, the rain pouring down, a well-dressed woman in her sixties stands in a doorway, a gun in her purse, waiting for a senator to come home.Washington, D.C.: The phone rings on the desk of Blake Johnson, head of the White House department known as The Basement. The President wants him now.London: The Prime Minister sits thinking of Sean Dillon, the onetime terrorist, now his most effective, if not exactly most trusted, operative. It'll have to be Dillon, he thinks. There's no one else.Someone is killing off the members of a splinter group known as the Sons of Erin, normally not a cause for much concern, but the consequences are much greater than anyone realizes. For in these actions lie the seeds of disaster: the fall of two governments and the derailment of the Irish peace process. Dillon and Johnson must stop this unknown assassin, the heads of state agree, quickly, quietly, before all hell breaks loose...But they may already be too late. For in the Manhattan night, the silver-haired woman smiles, adjusts her rain hat more snugly on her head, and steps into the street. Four down, she thinks.

Une taupe à la Maison-Blanche

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

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Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack Higgins

 The called it the Place of Silence: the last frozen barrier between Balpur and Tibet. An icy wilderness where desperate men made a living smuggling guns across the border.

 Even for the bravest, the luck has to run out.

 On what he thought would be his last flight, Jack Drummond found his own recipe for disaster. A deadly cargo of machine guns. A band of ruthless guerrillas. And a confrontation with the Chinese Reds, leaving no chance for escape.

The Iron Tiger

The phenomenally successful Jack Higgins teams up with Justin Richards to launch a sure fire best seller for children.

 The mother of fourteen-year-old twins Rich and Jade dies in a car crash and they are told they must go and live with their estranged father, who they have never met before. Neither the children nor their father get on, but when Rich and Jade witness him being kidnapped they are drawn into a dangerous crisis that could engulf not just their family but the whole world.

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