The Midnight Bell
In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the “Prime Minister’s private army,” fresh from defeating a deadly al-Qaeda operation, receive a warning: You may think you have weakened us, but you have only […]
Rain On the Dead
Library Journal 07/01/2014 Two Chechen mercenaries are wiped out in a failed attempt to assassinate former U.S. president Jake Cazalet on Nantucket—thank goodness black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague Afghan war hero Capt. Sara Gideon were with him at the time. But how the mercenaries learned that Cazalet was on the island is […]
The Death Trade
Publishers Weekly 10/14/2013 Iran is on the verge of making a nuclear bomb that “is cheap and four times as effective as anything else on the planet” in bestseller Higgins’s timely 20th thriller featuring Sean Dillon, the former IRA enforcer turned British black ops agent. The unwilling mastermind behind the bomb is French-Iranian Simon Husseini, […]
A Devil Is Waiting
Publishers Weekly: Capt. Sara Gideon, “a brilliant linguist†just home from a rough tour in Afghanistan, joins the can-do ranks of Great Britain’s anti-terrorism squad, the so-called “Prime Minister’s private army,†in bestseller Higgins’s rousing if predictable 19th thriller featuring former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon (after 2010’s The Judas Gate). Dillon and his team get […]
The Wolf At the Door
Publishers Weekly In bestseller Higgins's exciting 17th Sean Dillon thriller (after A Darker Place), Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is behind a plot to kill Dillon and other members of the British prime minister's private intelligence army as payback for their being such a thorn in his side over the years. In London, Gen. Charles […]
A Darker Place
Kirkus Reviews: A high-profile Russian defects to the Brits (or not) in Higgins's latest thriller (Rough Justice, 2008, etc.). Alexander Kurbsky is an ex-paratrooper, a battle-scarred veteran of Russia's brutal wars in Afghanistan and Chechnya. He's also a bestselling, critically acclaimed novelist. In New York, as guest of honor at a United Nations literary function, […]