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A storm is coming for Sean Dillon & company in the mesmerizing new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. It begins with the attempted assassination of the ex-President of the United States. Only the presence of Sean Dillon and the fellow members of...

A fabulous all-new contemporary thriller from the master of the genre – the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure When the president's...

Året er 1943, og de amerikanske styrker gør sig klar til at gå i land på Sicilien, der regeres med hård hånd af Mussolinis fascistiske styrker. Men for at aktionen skal gå så gnidningsfrit som muligt, må amerikanerne gøre et modvilligt offer. Mafiabossen "Lucky" Luciano, som afsoner en lang fængselsstraf, må løslades for en periode for at hjælpe dem på Sicilien.

Lejemorderen Fallon ønsker ikke at dræbe en præst. Så efter fader da Costa har været vidne til mord, bekender han sine synder til præsten gennem skriftemålet for derved at opnå hans tavshed uden at skulle slå ham ihjel. Men hvad der startede som et dække over en forbrydelse, udvikler sig lige så stille til en slags venskab, der er lige farligt for begge parter.

Jack Higgins's previous novels Edge of Danger and Midnight Runner put British intelligence agent Sean Dillon through "a lot of thrills [and] wild action" (Los Angeles Times). Now a new enemy has emerged with a dark secret from World War II--and a score to settle with agent Dillon...

Henry Patterson får sit livs chok, da han i den solgyldne morgen dykker ud for øen St. John. En gammel tysk ubåd, sunket her i Det caribiske hav? Nysgerrigheden driver den erfarne amatørdykker til en nærmere undersøgelse af vraget. Her finder han en højst usædvanlig logbog - med prominente navne fra fortiden, blandt andre Martin Bormann og hertugen af Windsor. Logbogen afslører også, at der bag en utilgængelig vandtæt dør ligger en mappe med et endnu mere sensationelt indhold.

De kalder sig makkabæerne og er religiøse fanatikere. De kræver, at USA bomber Irak, Iran og Syrien. Et vanvittigt krav. Ja, men de har et stærkt kort på hånden. Hun hedder Marie de Brissac og er hemmelig datter af USA‘s præsident Jake Cazalet. En datter, der blev resultatet af Jake Cazalets kærlighedsaffære med en fransk grevinde, som Jake reddede i 1969, da han var soldat i Vietnam. Nu har makkabæerne kidnappet Marie. Hun bliver henrettet, hvis præsidenten ikke opfylder fanatikernes krav.

En mørk nat i maj 1944, en måned før D-dag, ligger den amerikanske agent Craig Osbourne i havet ud for den engelske kyst. Da en tysk båd dukker op ud af tågen og sætter kursen direkte mod ham, er han sikker på, at det er slut med hans indsats i krigen – og formodentlig også med hans liv.

It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand. The assassination doesn’t go according to plan, but this is only the...

Wartime secrets threaten to topple a President – in heart-stopping adventure from the incomparable Jack Higgins. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the...

THE NEW HIGGINS HAS LANDED! One man with the key to Armageddon. One chance for Sean Dillon to find him. The hunt is on, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. THE CLOCK IS TICKING When an eminent Iranian scientist...

“The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it.” But will it finally toll for Sean Dillon & company in the explosive new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author. In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash...

Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a 12-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked. Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he? Maybe it would all have been easier to take if he really had been mad.

After five years’ hard time, ex-soldier Hugh Marlowe emerges into the free world ready to fight anyone who stands in his way. Rough justice is all he knows. But when a beautiful, vulnerable woman asks for his help, Marlowe quickly finds himself a world away from the London gangland that he knows in a different life with its own problems.

It’s a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the people live in daily fear of the ruthless secret police. His job: to find a double agent whose cover has been blown and put him out of commission, permanently. But what Chavasse doesn’t know is that deep within the twisting channels of the perilous coastal marshes, someone has set a trap for him - someone who holds the keys of hell.

Caught in the nets of a local fishing boat, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston is dragged from the English Channel, wrapped from head to toe in heavy chain. British intelligence suspects a connection with a cross-channel smuggling ring. But as undercover agent Paul Chavasse embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous cases in his extraordinary career, he soon discovers that this is no small-time operation - and the ruthless men behind it will stop at nothing to protect their precious cargo.

Your go-to source for the international LGBTQ+ rugby community. Hosted by Jack Higgins and Ozzie Luna of Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby, this podcast explores the world of inclusive sports, rugby news, and the stories behind players making waves in the sport. Born from the success of the Los Angeles Rebellion Rugby team's social media, The Gay Rugby Podcast celebrates the intersection of rugby and LGBTQ+ inclusivity. From The Bingham Cup to international gay rugby events, Jack and Ozzie share insights, interviews, and updates from the global rugby scene.

Jack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands War thriller Exocet.