The Midnight Bell, Jack Higgins
The Midnight Bell, Jack Higgins
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The Midnight Bell

Author: Jack Higgins

Narrator: Michael Page

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2016


Synopsis

From the “the dean of intrigue novelists” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) comes a New York Times-bestselling novel of terrorism and revenge featuring IRA-hitman-turned-intelligence-operative Sean Dillon…“The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it.”—Irish proverbIn 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 made us stronger. In Washington, D.C., a special projects director with the CIA, frustrated at not getting permission from the President for his daring anti-terrorism plan, decides to put it in motion anyway. He knows he’s right—the nation will thank him later.Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake. Desperate men will act, secrets will be revealed—and the midnight bell will toll.

About Jack Higgins

Jack Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands. The author of dozens of bestsellers, most famously The Eagle Has Landed, he served three years with the Royal Horse Guards in Eastern Europe during the Cold War, and subsequently was a circus roustabout, a factory worker, a truck driver, and a laborer before entering college at age 27. He holds degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics, and a doctorate in media. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, he is an expert scuba diver and marksman.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Scott

Jack Higgins has been the Master (no pun intended - read the book and you will get it) for my entire life. Until this book. It saddens me to say this one is not up to what i consider to be the standard for Higgins. This one seems way too "simple". A young adult read would describe my feelings on this......more