Jack Higgins, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (186p) ISBN 978-0-671-67843-2
Some writers can surprise their fans and win new admirers with a change of pace; this slender yet interminable coming-of-age tale by immensely popular suspense novelist Higgins suggests only that the author shouldn't abandon his career in genre...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam $25.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-399-14489-9
The Irish peace process is at risk because of the actions of a heartbroken mother in Higgins's 29th thriller. American-born and married to a British lord, 60-ish Lady Helen Lang, the ""nicest person you'll ever meet,"" has taken it upon herself to...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam $25.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-399-14585-8
There's a jaunty, even slapdash feel to the storytelling in Higgins's exciting new novel featuring his longtime antihero, Sean Dillon. And that's fine. The clipped dialogue and minimal exposition suit their subject well, for Dillon--once the IRA's...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14701-2
After 31 Higgins thrillers, nearly all first-rate, fans know that this author is as reliable as a Rolls. His 32nd novel proves no letdown. Pitting returning antihero Sean Dillon, once of the IRA, now with British intelligence, against an...
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Jack Higgins, Putnam, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15684-7
The massacre of 12 U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team in Afghanistan reveals that an Irishman, code-named Shamrock, is applying IRA tactics to the Taliban's struggle against the West in Higgins's less than satisfying 18th Sean Dillon...
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Jack Higgins, Author Berkley $7.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-14670-5
In this slick archeological thriller, Higgins (The Eagle Has Landed) reaffirms his skill as a storyteller. In 1939, with the world on the brink of war, American Arabist Gavin Kane is hired to find a missing husband. The missing husband, John...
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Jack Higgins, Author Berkley $7.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-15517-2
Originally published under a pseudonym in 1963, Higgins's thriller focuses on the cold war-era space race. (Oct.)
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Jack Higgins, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (294p) ISBN 978-0-425-17189-9
Searching for the peace and quiet that eluded him for four long years as a Confederate colonel in the Civil War, surgeon Clay Fitzgerald sets out for Ireland to lay claim to the estate and fortune he's recently inherited. Once there, he finds...
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Jack Higgins, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (320p) ISBN 978-0-671-63727-9
An American colonel who knows the secrets of forthcoming D day has washed up, wounded, on the German-occupied island of Jersey, off the coast of England, and must be rescued. Thus the basic premise of Higgins's most tingling thriller since The Eagle
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Jack Higgins, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-63691-3
Sean Egan is Irish, well-educated and cynical, trained by the British as a commando who can shoot bad guys between the eyes without blinking. Sarah Talbot is a powerful Wall Street lawyer and a wealthy socialite. This unlikely duo join forces to...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-14833-0
"Death is the Midnight Runner" goes the Arab proverb that gives Higgins's latest its name, but the title could as well refer to the book itself, swift and coursing with dark passion. A sequel to last year's electrifying Edge of...
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Jack Higgins, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68425-9
In his latest thriller, Higgins ( The Eagle Has Landed ) returns to familiar territory with nothing very new to offer. As D-day approaches in Europe, the Allied command learns of a German staff conference to be held in Brittany at the Chateau de...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-13933-8
Having turned former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon into a hero in Thunder Point , Higgins refines his portrait of that deadly little man even further here by allowing him to acquire almost mystical kung-fu skills. This latest thriller opens with a...
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Jack Higgins. Putnam, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15809-4
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...
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Jack Higgins. Putnam, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-16589-4
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...
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Jack Higgins. Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-17194-9
In bestseller Higgins’s lackluster 21st Sean Dillon thriller (after 2013’s The Death Trade), the legendary ex-IRA gunman plays a largely supporting role. The shadowy Master, who controls a network of international terrorist groups, plots to...
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Jack Higgins. Putnam, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-18530-4
Bestseller Higgins’s routine 22nd Sean Dillon thriller (after 2014’s Rain on the Dead) pits the former IRA assassin against the new leader of al-Qaeda, who calls himself simply the Master. Dillon took out the previous Master, and his successor is...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-14239-0
Pint-sized ex-IRA and ex-PLO operative Sean Dillon (Drink with the Devil, etc.), now with British Intelligence, finds himself working on behalf of the U.S. president in Higgins's disappointing latest. Dillon, Brigadier Charles Ferguson and Chief...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Berkley $7.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-18268-0
Originally released in the U.K. under the pseudonym Martin Fallon, this newly revised, long-lost gem from 1965 follows the exploits of British agent Sir Paul Chavasse, a James Bond–like hero who is a frequent player in Higgins's early...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Berkley $7.99 (259p) ISBN 978-0-425-18736-4
Previously published in England under Higgins's real name, Harry Patterson, this 1960s police thriller is the first of three featuring Detective Nick Miller to be released in the United States. Ben Garvald, a notorious thief, is finally getting...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-14970-2
Humdrum company would be a more accurate title. This sequel to Higgins's last, ripsnorting yarn, Midnight Runner, is mostly a by-the-numbers effort, though the numbers do speed by. The novel, the author's 35th, begins promisingly, playing to
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-15178-1
Many of Higgins's thrillers have told one continuing saga, involving the efforts of Gen. Charles Ferguson (head of the British PM's "Private Army") and his staff to fend off various threats to queen and country. Here the timely...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15315-0
Higgins picks up where his last novel (Dark Justice
) featuring top-level British intelligence officer Gen. Charles Ferguson and his right-hand agent, former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon, left off, three weeks after a shootout killed Russian billionaire
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $25.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-399-15380-8
After almost two score books, many of them bestsellers, Higgins (Without Mercy
) knows how to fire up a thriller. In the first half-dozen pages, he establishes his London locale; reintroduces recurring lead Sean Dillon, the colorful former IRA man...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15513-0
The solid 15th entry in Higgins's Sean Dillon thriller series (after The Killing Ground
) finds aging, arthritic ex-gangster Harry Salter retired from active operations, leaving Dillon, once the IRA's most feared enforcer, as the real...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $26.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-399-15550-5
When world-famous Russian novelist Alexander Kurbsky decides to leave for the West in bestseller Higgins’s suspenseful 16th thriller to feature former IRA man Sean Dillon (after Rough Justice
), Kurbsky turns for help to Dillon and other...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14154-6
Sean Dillon, master of disguise and steady Higgins hero (Angel of Death, etc.), returns for another go against political mayhem in the author's latest action-fest. A 1985 hijacking of gold bullion, masterminded by Irish Protestant terrorist Michael...
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Jack Higgins, Author . Putnam $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15612-0
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...
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Jack Higgins, Author Putnam $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-13758-7
Higgins's thrillers may evoke a strong sense of deja vu (same basic story, different time frame), but that doesn't seem to diminish the impact of each new novel. Early in 1991, while the Gulf war is in full bloom, operatives of Saddam Hussein hire...
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Jack Higgins, Author, Harper W. Boyd, Jr., Author Putnam $23.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-399-14042-6
The main plot device in Higgins's new thriller has a certain comic-strip blaze to it: a female British motorcyclist in black leather who carries a Beretta pistol and kills only to create chaos. This angel of death is also Britain's greatest actress,
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Jack Higgins, Author, Christopher Lane, Read by , read by Christopher Lane. Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1497-4
Higgins pits series hero ex-IRA enforcer Sean Dillon, now British Intelligence's go-to guy on antiterrorism, against terrorists Hussein Rashid, better known as the Hammer of God. The Hammer's plan is to enter England, kill Dillon's...
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Jack Higgins, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $6.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-67844-9
Aspiring writer Oliver Shaw, recently demobbed from the British army in 1949, decides to devote his time to the pursuit of women. ``This slender yet interminable coming-of-age tale by immensely popular suspense novelist Higgins suggests only that...
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Jack Higgins, read by Michael Page. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-4570-2
Hugh Marlowe served five years in a London prison for robbery. Now he’s free and ready to spend the loot he hid before doing his time. But with his old gang and the police closing in, Marlowe takes his stash of stolen cash and flees to the...
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Jack Higgins, Author, Michael Page, Read by , read by Michael Page. Brilliance Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6995-0
Action, betrayal, murder and mayhem have long been the staples of Jack Higgins's international thrillers featuring ex-IRA enforcer turned British operative Sean Dillon, and this latest outing continues that tradition. However, Dillon falls into
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Jack Higgins, Author, Justin Richards, With . Putnam $16.99 (237p) ISBN 978-0-399-24784-2
The internationally bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed
partners with Richards (the Invisible Detective series) to write this standout YA spy novel. Following the unexpected death of their mother, teenage twins Jade and Rich Chance are...
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