Higgins, Jack,
The midnight bell / Jack Higgins. - New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016 - 310 pages ; 24 cm. - Sean Dillon ; 22 .
"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own. In the Virgin Islands, former president Jake Cazalet receives a warning. He is recuperating on a diving trip after successfully helping Sean Dillon and the rest of the "Prime Minister's private army" defeat an Al Qaeda operation in London. But though AQ may be weakened and facing competition from other terrorist upstarts, it is far from dead--and it intends to prove it. Soon the ripples from these two events will spread and overlap, not only in Washington but around the world. Everyone involved will find themselves in the most desperate battle of their lives--and the midnight bell will toll"--
9780399185304 0399185305 9781410493316 1410493318
2016036928
Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character)
Qaida (Organization)--Fiction.
Terrorism--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Fiction.
Suspense.
Thrillers.
Espionage.
PR6058.I343 / M525 2016
Hig 2
The midnight bell / Jack Higgins. - New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016 - 310 pages ; 24 cm. - Sean Dillon ; 22 .
"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own. In the Virgin Islands, former president Jake Cazalet receives a warning. He is recuperating on a diving trip after successfully helping Sean Dillon and the rest of the "Prime Minister's private army" defeat an Al Qaeda operation in London. But though AQ may be weakened and facing competition from other terrorist upstarts, it is far from dead--and it intends to prove it. Soon the ripples from these two events will spread and overlap, not only in Washington but around the world. Everyone involved will find themselves in the most desperate battle of their lives--and the midnight bell will toll"--
9780399185304 0399185305 9781410493316 1410493318
2016036928
Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character) --Fiction.
Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character)
Qaida (Organization)--Fiction.
Terrorism--Fiction.
Intelligence service--Fiction.
Suspense.
Thrillers.
Espionage.
PR6058.I343 / M525 2016
Hig 2