The midnight bell

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

The midnight bell

Author:

Higgins, Jack, 1929-2022 author

ISBN:

9781410493316

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017.

Physical Description:

397 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Thorndike Press large print core series.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Personal Subject:

Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00893822

Corporate Subject:

Qaida (Organization) -- Fiction.

Qaida (Organization) (OCoLC)fst00763708

Subject(s):

Qaida (Organization) -- Fiction.

Terrorism -- Fiction.

Intelligence service -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorIn Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. In London, Sean Dillon receives a warning from al-Qaeda. And in Washington, D.C., a CIA special projects director activates his daring -- and unauthorized -- anti-terrorism plan. Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap.

Author Notes

Jack Higgins is a writer and educator, born in Newcastle, England on July 17, 1929. The name is the pseudonym of Harry Patterson. He also wrote under the names of Martin Fallon, James Graham, and Hugh Marlowe during his early writing career. He attended Leeds Training College and eventually graduated from the University of London in 1962 with a B.S. degree in Sociology.

Higgins held a series of jobs, including a stint as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal House of Guards serving on the German border during the Cold War. He taught at Leeds College of Commerce and James Graham College. He has written more than 60 books including The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, Confessional, The Eagle Has Flown, and Eye of the Storm. Higgins is also the author of the Sean Dillon series. His novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages.

His title's The Death Trade and Rain on the Dead made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

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 plotting his revenge. Dillon's allies include Vietnam vet Blake Johnson, who runs the Basement, the American president's "personal security department"; and Dillon's cousin Hannah Flynn, who, although just 19, "had grown up in an IRA family and knew how to handle a gun." Hannah's skills come in handy when she and another woman are attacked, but, as is typical of the genre, violent events that would unsettle a real person have minimal emotional impact. Characters act in reckless ways that will distance some readers from any sense of reality. Others may not care for the unsophisticated politics. For example, a supposedly savvy former president asserts that the U.S. thought at one point "that the deaths of Saddam, Gadaffi, and bin Laden would cure the ills of the Middle East." Agent: Ed Victor, Ed Victor Literary Agency (U.K.). (Dec.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Prolific author of yarns of spy craft and intrigue, Higgins returns to his Sean Dillon series with a revenge tale featuring a newly revived al-Qaeda, whose latest leader, "The Master," harangues the heroic cast of the "Prime Minister's private army" with endless threatening telephone calls and manipulates sundry miscreants into acts of random violence against Dillon and his comrades. Along the way a treasonous plot against the U.S. President is uncovered and quashed, and the mystery of a lost treasure ship is solved. Verdict With a villain whose main weapon seems to be a cell phone with unlimited international minutes, a cast of characters straight out of an English drawing-room comedy, and a barely discernible plot, this program is only redeemed by the dedicated exertions of award-winning narrator Michael Page, whose acting prowess somehow makes this mess of a book entertaining. Recommended for die-hard Higgins fans only.-Forrest Link, Coll. of New Jersey, Ewing © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.