Jack Higgins Livres

New York : minuit. Une dame d'un certain âge s'abrite de la pluie dans le hall d'un immeuble, un Colt dans son sac à main. Elle attend l'arrivée d'un sénateur américain. Washington D C : à la Maison-Blanche, le président Cazalet demande à voir de toute urgence Blake Johnson, directeur d'un service très secret. Londres : le Premier ministre pense à Sean Dillon, ancien activiste irlandais repenti, devenu le plus efficace, mais pas forcément le plus fiable de ses agents. Quel rapport entre les trois ? D'étranges crimes contre les membres d'un groupe dissident irlandais, sous la coupe d'un psychopathe sanguinaire, qui déclenchent un véritable cataclysme politique : la chute de deux gouvernements et la mise à mal du processus de paix en Irlande du Nord. Sean Dillon et Blake Johnson doivent à tout prix arrêter le tueur. Mais peut-être est-il déjà trop tard... Une vieille dame très british qui tire plus vite que son ombre, une intrigue foisonnante et une sérieuse dose d'humour : après Le Secret du Président, le nouveau cocktail détonant de Jack Higgins, l'auteur de L'Aigle s'est envolé, au meilleur de sa forme.

Deux frères. Deux ennemis à la vie, à la mort. Un seul enjeu : l'issue de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Harry et Max sont jumeaux, pilotes émérites, aviateurs nés. La Seconde Guerre mondiale va les séparer : Max devient un as de la Luftwaffe, Harry de la RAF. Des forces supérieures aux leurs ont engendré une situation si terrible qu'il leur faudra remettre en question tout ce qui leur est cher. Du succès de leurs missions dépendent leurs vies, celle d'Eisenhower et... le cours de la guerre. Dans la lignée de son best-seller L'aigle s'est envolé, un grand roman de guerre et d'aventures. Du grand Jack Higgins !

Angleterre, novembre 1943. Un officier allemand, Kurt Steiner, est au secret dans la tour de Londres. Il est le survivant d'une mission - nom de code "Aigle" - qui aurait pu changer le cours de l'Histoire. Pour le général SS Schellenberg, engagé dam 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... Le romancier d'Exocet et d'Opération Comouailles nous donne ici un cocktail détonant de suspense et d'action, où se croisent dignitaires nazis, agents de renseignements des Alliés et gangsters de la pègre londonienne...

Dans les grands fonds de la mer des Caraïbes, à bord de l'épave d'un sous-marin allemand de la dernière guerre, subsite un document terrible : la liste des personnalité anglaises ou américaines secrètement ralliées à Hitler et décidées à aider la cause nazie. Retrouvée par un passionné de plongée, Henry Baker, cette liste suscite bien des convoitises : services secrets, maîtres-chanteurs, réseaux terroristes... Sean Dillon, l'Irlandais ancien de l'IRA, est chargé par le gouvernement brittanique de la récupérer coûte que coûte. S'engage alors la plus terrible chasse au trésor, où la piste des derniers secret du IIIème Reich - entre autres le destin mystérieux du dignitare nazi martin Bornmann - recoupe celle des réseaux terroristes d'aujourd'hui.

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...

Situé en mai 1944, ce récit palpitant suit l'agent américain des OSS, Craig Osbourne, qui se retrouve à bord d'un E-boat allemand, croyant que sa mission est terminée. Au lieu de cela, il fait partie d'une opération secrète de la Royal Navy, chargé de retourner en France occupée. Aux côtés de la sœur jumelle d'un agent britannique décédé, Osbourne doit infiltrer un briefing crucial du Haut Commandement allemand. Les enjeux sont élevés, car le succès de l'invasion alliée imminente dépend de l'issue de leur audacieuse mission.

A la veille d'un accord entre factions ennemies de l'Irlande du Nord, la violence se déchaîneà nouveau. Mais cette fois, les assassinats, revendiqués par un mystérieux "groupe du 30 janvier", endeuillent chaque camp, catholique comme protestant, et frappent aussi bien des agents américains que des diplomates russes... Sean Dillon, ancien militant de l'IRA, est directement chargé par le premier minsitre britannique de trouver les coupables. Et de protéger coûte que coûte le médiateur envoyé par les Etats-Unis... Mais comment circonscrire une violence devenue aveugle, illogique, absurde ?

John Mikali è un celebre, osannato pianista, amato e ricercato dalle donne, ma soprattutto è un killer temibile e crudele. Anche Asa Morgan è un killer, un soldato che ha votato tutta la propria vita all'esercito. Un giorno i loro destini si incrociano tragicamente, dando il via ad una spietata caccia all'uomo che pone ad entrambi un'unica, agghiacciante alternativa: vivere o morire. Un thriller dal ritmo incalzante e dalla suspense mozzafiato, che avvince e incatena il lettore fino alla drammatica, ineluttabile conclusione.

"In Jack Higgins's acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive - but only one of them does." As Detective Superintendent Hannah Bernstein of Special Branch lies recuperating in the hospital, a dark shadow sent by a figure from the past steals across the room and finishes the job. Consumed by grief and rage, Dillon, Blake, Ferguson, and all who loved Hannah swear vengeance, no matter where it takes them. But they have no idea of the searing journey, both physical and emotional, upon which they are about to embark - nor of the war that will change them all.

Martin Fallon, terroriste irlandais, a échoué dans son dernier attentat, causant la mort d'un groupe d'enfants dans un bus scolaire. Il est désormais recherché par la police et par ses propres camarades, qui souhaitent le tuer. Écœuré par le sang versé, il désire quitter la clandestinité et fuir en Amérique. Cependant, un gangster perfide, Jack Meehan, le fait chanter, l'obligeant à assassiner un de ses ennemis. Lors de cet assassinat, un prêtre catholique, le père Da Costa, en est témoin. Fallon se confesse alors auprès de lui pour le faire taire et continue de fréquenter sa paroisse, car il a rencontré Anna, la nièce du père Da Costa, une gentille fille aveugle. Leur histoire d'amour s'épanouit au son de l'orgue. Mais Martin Fallon est de plus en plus menacé par ses ennemis, notamment Meehan, qui souhaite se venger de son frère tué en faisant sauter la église du père Da Costa, entraînant la mort de ce dernier, d'Anna et de Martin. Cependant, le jeune homme défend et sauve le prêtre et la fille.

In Jack Higgins's latest novel, the Mafia operates without the traditional gold chains and tommy guns, conducting business quietly and blending into legitimate industries like TV, film, and publishing. When Truth magazine reporter Katherine Johnson investigates millionaire socialite and mob boss Jack Fox, her probing leads to her body being discovered in the East River, prompting suspicions of foul play. Her ex-husband, former FBI agent Blake Johnson, devastated by her death, takes matters into his own hands. With the president's backing from a secret White House department known as The Basement, Blake is authorized to eliminate Fox as he sees fit. As Blake embarks on his quest for vengeance, the narrative unfolds into an international battle between justice and crime, with Blake strategically undermining Fox's business operations. However, Fox proves to be a formidable opponent, countering Blake's every move. While the clash between these powerful figures is intriguing, Higgins struggles to breathe life into his characters, resulting in a story that feels somewhat clichéd. The heroes and villains echo classic James Bond archetypes, complete with brandy, luxury suits, and grandiose schemes. Though it offers a nostalgic nod to early Cold War thrillers, it ultimately doesn't reach the heights of Higgins's earlier works like The Eagle Has Landed.

Comment un tueur trop doué, le jeune Irlandais Kelly, soigneusement formé par les militaires du K.G.B., finit par échapper à tous ceux qui veulent le contrôler, le neutraliser ou le supprimer. Ainsi lâché dans la nature, il est définitivement plus dangereux. Et cela se passe en pleine guerre des Malouines, au moment où Jean-Paul II vient en Angleterre pour une mission de paix, premier pape dans l'Histoire à visiter la cathédrale de Canterbury. Contre Kelly et la terrible menace qu'il représente, seul Devlin fait le poids - Devlin, l'ancien agent secret retiré en Irlande, l'un des héros de L'Aigle s'est envolé... Confessionnal, roman d'action, formidable suspense où l'on ne souffle pas une seconde, confirme bien la place de Jack Higgins parmi les plus grands, de Frederick Forsyth à Ken Follett.

Lady Kate Rashid est l'une des femmes les plus riches du monde. Elle est 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 Etats-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. Tom Clancy a dit de lui que c'était notre maître à tous après Danger imminent, Jack Higgins le prouve avec ce thriller redoutable.

Alors qu'en mars 1939 il se dispose à envahir la Pologne, Hitler décide de prévenir là riposte franco--anglaise en détruisant le canal de Suez. Le camp d'Otto Muller, un archéologue allemand lancé à la recherche du palais de la reine de Saba, servira de base à l'opération. Cependant, à Dahrein, au bord du golfe d'Aden, Ruth Cunningham, la femme d'un archéologue anglais, s'adresse à l'aventurier Gavin Kane pour qu'il l'aide à retrouver son mari, disparu en plein désert. Lui aussi rêvait du légendaire palais, et du secret découvert voilà deux mille ans par le centurion grec Alexias. Trafiquants, agents doubles, espions nazis... Environnés de trahisons et de pièges, Ruth et Gavin devront affronter l'enfer de chaleur du Rub-al-Khali, cette région également nommée le « Quartier vide », pour sauver Cunningham et modifier, s'il se peut, le cours de l'Histoire.

Récit de politique-fiction dont la guerre de Malouines (Folkland, Malvines) en la conjoncture. Fait un peu "bandes dessinées" par rapport aux autres romans de l'auteur.

En 1983, un étudiant anglais est retrouvé assassiné à Paris, sur les quais de la Seine. Désespérée par sa mort, Sarah Talbot, sa belle-mère, se heurte au silence et à l'hostilité de la justice, et décide donc de chercher seule la vérité. Aidée par Sean Egan, jeune et mystérieux agent du SAS, son enquête va la conduire des banlieues de Paris à la forteresse où s'abrite un parrain sicilien, en passant par l'illustre MI 5 londonien. Face à elle, l'énigmatique " M. Smith ", avec l'aide de Jago, un tueur à gages, tire les ficelles d'un sinistre jeu. Car Sarah Talbot, sans le savoir, est entrée en conflit avec des institutions aussi puissantes que secrètes. Par l'auteur de L'aigle s'est envolé, Exocet, L'Irlandais.

Un prêtre catholique et sa nièce aveugle accompagnent l'anti-héros du titre dans une sombre histoire criminelle dans laquelle l'auteur, célèbre depuis, faisait ses gammes (1973).

Sous quatre pseudonymes plus son nom propre, cet auteur anglais a écrit plus d'une trentaine de romans d'aventures qui rejoignent tous l'espionnage ou la politique-fiction, par exemple, dans le cas de son livre le plus célèbre ##L'aigle s'est envolé## (1975). Ce premier recueil contient sept aventures publiées entre 1959 et 1963.

The brilliant suspense thriller from the author of THE EAGLE HAS LANDED, set in the wartime battlegrounds of the Mediterranean.

Describes alcohol addiction and explores how history was shaped by public figures who were alcoholics

For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her. Mari is a brilliant young Mechanic, just out of the Guild Halls, where she has spent most of her life learning how to run the steam locomotives and other devices of her Guild. Alain is the youngest Mage ever to learn how to change the world he sees with the power of his mind. Each has been taught that the works of the other's Guild are frauds. But when their caravan is destroyed, they begin to discover how much has been kept from them. As they survive danger after danger, Alain discovers what Mari doesn't know, that she was long ago prophesized as the only one who can save their world. When Mari reawakens emotions he had been taught to deny, Alain realizes he must sacrifice everything to save her. Mari, fighting her own feelings, discovers that only together can she and Alain hope to stay alive and overcome the Dragons of Dorcastle

This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art, archaelogical remains and surviving buildings.The nature of power and kingship, role of wealth, rewards, conquest and blood-feud in the perennial struggle for power, structure of society, the development of Christianity and the relations between church and secular authority are discussed at length, while particular topics are explored in 19 "picture essays".

Three desperate men. Each determined to flee his dark and violent past—only to find that violence is a way of life from which there is no escape... Emmet Keough: a trained assassin who no longer can remember how many men he has killed or why he killed them. Van Horre: priest, bank robber, murderer...saint. A man running from the law himself. Janos: businessman, hotel proprietor...gun runner. A mysterious man with an even more mysterious past. Three desperate men in a chaotic, war-torn land, joined together in a mission of death.

The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays. The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author: This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through a combination of wit and waspish dialogue, comedy and political comment, and historical and contemporary concerns. The Angry Brigade (2014) takes a look at the story behind the Angry Brigade - a British anarchist group who carried out a series of bomb attacks between 1970 and 1972. The Vote (2015) looks at what happens in Britain on election night through the eyes of those at the polling station. Set in a fictional London polling station, Graham's play dramatises the final ninety minutes before the polls close in the 2015 general election. Monster Raving Loony (2016) explores the life and exploits of Screaming Lord Sutch to examine the state of the nation and Britain's post-war identity crisis. It tells the story of Sutch through a cavalcade of comic characters from music hall to Monty Python, panto to Partridge.

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary brings together discussions and projects at the intersection of architecture and climate change. Comprehensive essays consider cultural values ascribed to climate and ask how climate influences our conception of what architecture is and does. 0Which materials and conceptual infrastructures render climate legible, knowable and actionable, and what are their spatial implications? How do these interrelated questions offer new vantage points on the architectural rami?cations of climate change at the interfaces between resiliency, sustainability and eco-technology? New approaches to understanding climate in architecture based on research as well as the work of leading practitioners make this forward-thinking book invaluable. 0.

Gun runner and occasional smuggler Mark Hagen, hears a scream through the fog. He finds a girl. Before long he is hauled into a chaotic chase involving The Red Chinese, and a lot of gold. From feeling he had lost everything to suddenly fighting for his life, Hagen must battle his inner demons and some truly terrifying enemies.

Re-released on its 25th anniversary, this classic novel is widely considered to be Higgins' greatest work. Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler orders that Winston Churchill be kidnapped or killed. Meanwhile, a beautiful widow and IRA assassin have laid the groundwork for the most treacherous plot of the war, beginning when Berlin receives the message, "The eagle has landed".

An account of the Viking world based on recent archaelogical research. The text is complemented by illustrations, including maps and reconstruction drawings. The author also wrote "Viking Artefacts" and "The Vikings".

After a harrowing betrayal, a soldier fights for redemption The classic Jack Higgins thriller In the darkest days of World War II, Captain Hugh Lomax was Greece's last hope to drive the Nazis from the island of Kyros. His daring mission, and its brilliant success, should have ensured Lomax a hero's welcome when he returned to Kyros years later. Instead, he discovers that his allies on the island have been executed and the survivors manipulated to believe that he had betrayed them. Lomax is determined to earn back of the trust of the people of Kyros. But first he must uncover the truth behind the murderous conspirators--before they can kill him.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Introduction and the Scandinavian background -- Ships and the sea -- Traders and looters -- Viking settlement -- House and home -- Death and pagan gods -- Viking dress -- Kings and coinage -- Viking crafts -- The jeweller's craft -- Art and ornament -- The coming of Christianity.

Enter the hilarious world of comedian James Campbell.

This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art, archaelogical remains and surviving buildings.The nature of power and kingship, role of wealth, rewards, conquest and blood-feud in the perennial struggle for power, structure of society, the development of Christianity and the relations between church and secular authority are discussed at length, while particular topics are explored in 19 "picture essays".

A new, uncompromising political thriller exploring with electrifying theatricality the events of the Suez Crisis, and the tragic story of its flawed hero - Churchill's golden boy and heir apparent, Anthony Eden.

A harrowing portrait of a largely forgotten campaign that pushed one battalion to the limits of human suffering. Despite their lack of jungle training, the 32nd Division’s “Ghost Mountain Boys” were assigned the most grueling mission of the entire Pacific campaign in World War II: to march over the 10,000-foot Owen Stanley Mountains to protect the right flank of the Australian army during the battle for New Guinea. Reminiscent of the classics like Band of Brothers and The Things They Carried, The Ghost Mountain Boys is part war diary, part extreme-adventure tale, and—through letters, journals, and interviews—part biography of a group of men who fought to survive in an environment every bit as fierce as the enemy they faced. Theirs is one of the great untold stories of the war. “Superb.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Campbell started out with history, but in the end he has written a tale of survival and courage of near-mythic proportions.” —America in WWII magazine “In this compelling and sprightly written account, Campbell shines a long-overdue light on the equally deserving heroes of the Red Arrow Division.” —Military.com

A hilarious book from bestselling author and stand-up comic James Campbell, who has visited over 3,000 primary schools to tell stories and encourage children to write their own. Uncover the ridiculously funny life of teachers (and some things that have nothing to do with teachers but are still splendidly funny) according to James Campbell, comedian extraordinaire. Ever wondered what teachers do when they're not in the classroom? Are they undercover detectives, champion roller-blade dancers or do they spend their evenings playing with their 576 cats? This face-achingly funny book will also teach you why you should carry an emergency banana with you at all times, how to fart in class silently without anyone knowing it was you and how to catapult yourself to school by building a medieval style catapult in your back garden! Whether you love or loathe your teachers, want to become one when you grow up or don't give two figs about your teacher but simply love a HILARIOUS read, this book is for you. Prepare to roll around the floor laughing with the snot-inducingly brilliant The Funny Life of Teachers. But be warned - this is NOT a normal book. You can read it forwards, backwards, sideways and in approximately 861,000 different ways in between. Whichever way you read it, look no further for fantastic real-life teacher facts, incredibly funny illustrations, imaginary stories and an impossibly silly read!

Sean Dillon is an assassin, a hired hand who, despite working for the IRA, PLO and ETA, has not seen the inside of a prison cell. He's just the man that Iraqi, Michael Aroun has been looking for - the kind of professional who won't flinch from an attack on the offices of British government.

Seven years ago, Sean Rogan's dedication to the Irish Republican Army landed him in a high-security prison. When the organization needs his help again, Rogan stages a daring jailbreak, determined to intercept an armored truck and deliver its payload to IRA leader Colum O?More. But the IRA of years past is long gone, replaced by an organization rife with betrayal and manipulation. With the police hot on Rogan's trail, he must face down the treachery from all sides that threatens to bring his mission to a bloody end.

Jack Drummond is an adventurer -- a tough ex-naval pilot who is fed up with too many hot countries and strange cities. He resolves to fly only one more mission. Dropping off an illegal shipment of arms in Tibet (his last), Drummond is suddenly caught up in a bloody border war. To escape he must fly a boy king and a very beautiful woman to safety. But someone has burned his plane and destroyed his supplies. To survive he must take on the entire ChiCom army. Against them he has only a plan. A very desperate plan. "Higgins is a wonderful storyteller." (The New York Times)

In Kosovo, American Blake Johnson and Major Harry Miller of Britain band together just in time to stop a rogue Russian captain from desecrating a helpless village. Actually, Miller stops him...with a couple of bullets to the head. In the world of covert operations, death begets death-revenge leads only to revenge. And before the explosive situation is put to rest, there will be plenty of both.

A gripping examination of nation and football from acclaimed playwright James Graham, charting Gareth Southgate's time as England Men's Football team manager.

Nick Miller is Central Division's maverick Detective Sergeant. Disliked and distrusted by friends and foes, he works alone. He crosses the line. And he gets results.

By the same author as "The Eagle has Landed", "The Savage Day" and "A Prayer for the Dying", this story revolves around an attempt to rescue a man with important information about the D-Day landings from Nazi occupied Jersey.

This book explores how Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs transformed their experiences in mental hospitals and prisons into a global literary movement following World War II.

Stacey Wyatt knows the power of the Mafia. He has seen what its brutal vengeance and sinister corruption can do. But when he is broken out of prison and brough to Sicily, his only choice is to enter the Mafia's shadowy world of treachery and death. His was a simple job - rescue the daughter of a wealthy businessman from the Sicilian bandit who had kidnapped her. The money was big, and the risk was worth it. But it's only when he's in too deep that he realizes the tables have turned, the job was a setup, and the only person left to trust is himself...

During World War II, a group of German expatriates trapped in Brazil must sail across five thousand miles of tempestuous water to reach their homeland--and face the deadly barricade of American and British military power.

Sam Hannah earned his wings the hard way- as one of RAF's most daring fliers on the Western front.

"It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand." Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall.

From one of the world's most popular authors comes a classic thriller involving an elusive, brilliant terrorist-turned-hero. Ten years after the hijacking of a seagoing barge carrying one hundred million pounds in gold bullion, the President of the United States receives information about its whereabouts and its cargo--riches that are to be used to finance an Irish civil war. The task to stop the players and their deadly game falls to Sean Dillon, once-feared IRA enforcer, now working for British Intelligence.

Travel is no longer a luxury and not always an entertainment. Many journeys need to be made‹to get home or away from an enemy, to work, to find a last resting place, or because someone has told you to go. This issue of Granta is about such journeys; you might call it necessary travel writing, with Decca Aitkenhead: looking for cheap sex and drugs; Manuel Bauer: a child¹s escape over the Himalayas; Isabel Hilton: what have they done to Beijing?; Ian Jack: the train crash that stopped Britain; Ryszrd Kapuscinski: in the forests of Cameroon; Ian McEwan: on the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940; John Ryle: the last Emperor makes his last journey; Dayanita Singh: inside a sanctuary for girls in Benares; Simon Winchester: how Britain and the US made a people homeless; plus the untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin at home, revealed by James Campbell. Granta is the paperback magazine of new writing. Every issue features the best new fiction, reportage, memoir and photography, generally collected under a theme.

Special Agent Paul Chavasee is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he's being called into action, a job has gone bad - and it's about to get a lot worse.As Hitler's private secretary - and an influential member of the Third Reich - Martin Bormann was one of those rare Nazis who managed to simply disappear at the end of World War II. But the terrible secrets Bormann carried into oblivion are about to be revealed to the world. A manuscript that exposes former Nazis, who are now in hiding, is up for grabs, and there are those in power who have much to lose with its discovery.Now, Chavasse must retrieve the Bormann testament before it is buried forever - and him along with it...

James Baldwin was born into the squalor of a Harlem tenement and transcended an early life of setbacks and racism. A storefront preacher at the age of fourteen, he supported his entire family - mother and eight siblings - before he began writing for prestigious journals such as The Partisan Review. Troubled by his fame, his sexuality and his colour, he was a great drinker and socialiser with wild periods of gregariousness and monastic retreats during which he wrote feverishly. By the time he died in 1987, his books such as The Fire Next Time, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Nobody Knows My Name had become modern classics. James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. He quotes from the vast, disturbing file that the FBI compiled on Baldwin and discusses the writer's turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright and Marlon Brando, as well as his friendship with Martin Luther King. Elegantly written, candid and original, Talking at the Gates is a comprehensive account of the life and work of a writer who believed that 'the unexamined life is not worth living

THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED! One man with the key to Armageddon. One chance for Sean Dillon to find him. The hunt is on, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

Amy Daniels has a nice life. Her career is on the up, she loves her friends, and she's about to buy her very own flat. Amy could be described as a catch - so why is she perpetually single? The trouble is, Amy can see something no one else can: the end. As soon as she kisses someone, she knows, in vivid detail, how their relationship will end

A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence: 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 down the traitor. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

A lone journalist unravels the mystery behind a Nazi war criminal's escape. In 1945, as the Allies closed in on war-ravaged Berlin, Hitler's personal secretary, Martin Bormann, made his escape. Since that fateful day, Bormann's story has been shrouded in mystery.Thirty-one years later, a journalist has begun to finally piece together Bormann's cunning getaway. His electrifying investigation exposes the unwitting role of five Allied POWs in Bormann's escape plot as the Nazi regime crumbled. Now, with help from a surviving POW, this journalist follows history's twists and turns to a final, shocking conclusion.

The master of intrigue and suspense reunites the unforgettable team of his smash bestseller The President's Daughter to stop an unidentifed assassin--a woman who walks the streets of Manhattan, stalking the members of a secret politcal organization...and killing them, one by one. "One heckuva heroine Awho? will keep you turning the pages." --Larry King, USA Today

Paul Chavasse was set for a quiet evening when he noticed the old women standing in the shadows opposite the house. The message from the past that she conveyed was to have dramatic and far reaching consequences, involving a daring adventure in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

In 1934, after his spectacular jailbreak from a cell in Indiana, Dillinger was like a ghost—some claimed to spot him in New York, others in London, New Orleans, or California. Though the FBI would eventually find and kill Dillinger in Chicago, speculation about his whereabouts in those mysterious final months never waned. In Jack Higgins's suspenseful imagining, Dillinger flees to Mexico, where his attempts at finding freedom launch the fugitive into the clutches of men much more dangerous than the federal agents on his trail. This dramatic account of Dillinger's final days brings him face-to-face with bloodthirsty bandits and corrupt police officers, breathing vivid life into the story of America's most fascinating outlaw.

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

The New York Times– bestselling author and “dean of intrigue novelists” returns with a remarkable novel of espionage and revenge.A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky is fed up with the Putin government and decides he wants to “disappear” into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest of the group known informally as the “Prime Minister’s private army” for his escape and concealment.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, and he has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible. He does not care what he has to do or where he has to go . . . or who he has to kill.Filled with suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, A Darker Place once again proves that, in the words of the Associated Press, “When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd—Jack Higgins.”

Twenty years ago, a brave young man in Vietnam saved the life of a widowed Frenchwoman, and a brief, passionate affair ensued. Now that young hero is President of the United States, a true golden boy - until the day his world turns upside down. On a visit to Paris, he sees his former love again for the first time, and she directs his attention to a beautiful young woman across the room. Her daughter, she says. And his. Their secret. But the surprises are only beginning. Someone, somewhere, has also discovered the truth, and acting with terrible speed, a group of men seizes the girl. If the President does not comply with their demands, they will execute her. If he uses any of America's security agencies to track them down, they will execute her. He has ten days to decide. The President turns to the only men he feels can help - Sean Dillon, the IRA enforcer turned security specialist whose work had impressed the President in London; and Blake Johnson, the decorated Marine and FBI agent who heads the elite White House group known only as "The Basement." If these two cannot find his daughter, the President must face the most momentous decision of all. And meanwhile, the hours tick by....

Ex-IRA assassin Frank Barry now works for the KGB, and British Intelligence wants him eliminated. They persuade Liam Devlin and Martin Brosnan, ex-IRA colleagues of Barry, to do the job. By the author of The Eagle has Landed, and A Prayer for the Dying.

Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stavrou in order to gain her freedom: Grant must save Stavrou’s son from a secret cliff-top prison in Libya. To accomplish this mission, he must scale the rocky crag and somehow get Stavrou’s son out alive. His sister’s life—and his own—hang in the balance.

THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED! The mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

1940. Hitler’s terrifying war machine will soon roll through England, and in its wake Hitler plans to enthrone puppet monarchs under Nazi control. For these roles he demands none other than the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Berlin. Brilliant SS officer Walter Schellenberg is ordered to “persuade” the Duke and Duchess to the Nazi cause. But when Shellenberg impulsively aids the escape of beautiful Jewish nightclub singer Hannah Winter, he plunges them both into a dark arena of intrigue and betrayal. Hunted by ruthless Gestapo agents, chased through the deadly underground from Berlin to Madrid to Lisbon, they are racing on a collision course with their own loyalties – and the fate of all England.

Martin Fallon was a legendary hero in Ireland - to both sides. Now retired - and a writer - he is persuaded out for one last mission, never believing how high the cost will be.

At the end of the American Civil War, Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in its own civil war. But after witnessing the atrocities that the landowners visit upon the people, Clay is unable to stand by.

Set on the isolated island of Sinos, a former Turkish stronghold turned prison for political offenders, the story follows deep sea diver Jack Savage. After a suspicious explosion destroys his boat, he is approached by shipping magnate Dimitri Aleko, who recruits him for a daring mission. With Savage's background as a Royal Marine Commando, he must orchestrate a breakout that could change the lives of thousands imprisoned on the island. The narrative unfolds with themes of courage, secrecy, and the quest for freedom amidst grim circumstances.

With commando-like precision, someone was breaking Britain's most notorious prisoners out of jail, and delivering convicted spies back to the Soviets. His code name was The Baron -- there was just one way to trace him: put a secret operative inside the walls and let the Baron get him out. To do it the Special Branch needed an agent with the cunning mind of a criminal and the cold heart of a killer. That agent was Paul Chavasse.

In this departure from the thriller genre Higgins portrays a young man's picaresque growth to maturity in post-war Yorkshire.

A mission to reclaim a fortune in gold leads a man into the hair-raising heart of a terrorist underworldThe classic Jack Higgins thriller--now available as an ebook Simon Vaughan's life of adventure and arms trafficking came to an abrupt end the day the police threw him into a jail cell in Greece. But then the British Army comes calling with an offer he can't refuse. In exchange for his freedom, Vaughan must recover a bounty of gold stolen by the IRA in Belfast, and extinguish the organization's ruthless leader in the process. Now Vaughan must brave a new kind of war zone, one where he'll fight to hang on to his freedom, and his life.

Harry Manning, a freebooter with a past he doesn't like to talk about, runs a charter boat in the Bahamas. Also, he boozes. When his sweetheart leaves him by dying, Harry can find no relief. Except for the thought of revenge. And because he is Harry, he sets out to settle the score.

Freelance flyer Jack Nelson makes a living peddling his talents to the highest bidder...and now he has a chance to pull off the heist of a lifetime. There are millions in sunken treasure for the taking in a go-for-broke caper tailor-made for Nelson—and all he has to do to collect the loot is live through it.

When a young woman commits suicide, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller follows a hazardous trail to find the powerful man responsible for the girl's fate, only to watch him walk out of court a free man. But the dead girl's father swears to exact justice--with or without the law on his side.

A thriller, centering on Marlowe, an anti-hero, who has spent five years in prison, thinking only of the haul of cash he has stowed away. Within moments of freedom, London becomes a stalking ground - with Marlowe as the prey.

Joe Martin had been on many salvage operations, but his gut feeling told him this one was different. The insurance company and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot had hired him to find out what he could about the crash, but some things were best left alone. Before long, what should have been a routine mission becomes a hair-raising adventure packed with danger and betrayal. Then a batch of priceless emeralds are thrown into the equation, and Joe�s life is on the line. �A thriller writer in a class of his own� � Financial Times �Higgins is a master of his craft.� � Daily Telegraph

Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the legend that is Jack Higgins

The Graveyard Shift is the first of three classic police thrillers featuring detective Nick Miller -- now available in America for the first time... An ex-convict and an unconventional cop duke it out in the midnight hours -- only one of them will live to see the dawn.