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| Author: Jack Higgins |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0399155139
ISBN-13: 9780399155130
Buy.com Sku: 207966324
Publish Date: 8/19/2008
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 9.25H x 6.5L x 1.25T
Pages:
336
Age Range:
College to NA
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| Intrigue in the halls of power, blood in the streets— the master of suspense returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds. After almost two score books, Higgins knows how to fire up a thriller,” wrote Publishers Weekly about the author’s latest book, The Killing Ground. “It’s all pure Higgins: almost every shot hits square between the eyes, and all the characters are hard lads indeed.” But none of them harder than the heroes—and villains—of Rough Justice. Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque—or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates, including Britain’s Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia. Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is done—from Kosovo to London to Beirut to Ireland to Moscow—there will be plenty of both. Rich with all the ingredients that have made the author justly admired, Rough Justice is further proof that, in the words of the Associated Press, “When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd—Jack Higgins.” |
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From the Publisher:
Sent to Kosovo on a mission to report on the status in the troubled region, agent Blake Johnson joins forces with British operative Harry Miller to stop a Russian officer in the act of torching a mosque, a lethal action that will have profound repercussions for both agents, but also for Sean Dillon, the intelligence community, and the governments of the U.S., Britain, and Russia. 250,000 first printing. |
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With the retirement of crusty ex-con Harry Salter, Sean Dillon finds himself at the helm, juggling threats from the Moscow and Islamic fundamentalists in this 15th installment in Jack Higgins's bestselling series.
With the retirement of crusty ex-con Harry Salter, Sean Dillon finds himself at the helm, juggling threats from the Moscow and Islamic fundamentalists in this 15th installment in Jack Higgins's bestselling series.
Author Bio
Jack Higgins
Though born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Jack Higgins grew up in Belfast amid chaotic political unrest made even more significant by his family's political involvements. He later moved to Leeds, where he earned a teacher's certificate in 1958. This allowed him to acquire a variety of teaching positions that took him through Yorkshire and eventually to London, where he received a B.S. in sociology at the University of London in 1962. Before becoming an internationally best-selling author, Higgins held such jobs as circus tent-hand and tram conductor. But when his novel "The Eagle Has Landed" hit the bookstores in 1975, Higgins embarked upon a successful career writing thrillers varying in themes from organized crime to political and military conspiracies.
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