Rough Justice (Sean Dillon Series #15)

by Jack Higgins

Overview

In Kosovo, American Blake Johnson and Major Harry Miller of Britain band together just in time to stop a rogue Russian captain from desecrating a helpless village. Actually, Miller stops him...with a couple of bullets to the head.

In the world of covert operations, death begets death-revenge leads only to revenge. And before the explosive situation is put to rest, there will be plenty of both.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440634758
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/19/2008
Series:	Sean Dillon Series , #15
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	345 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Jack Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands.

What People are Saying About This

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"The master's master of spycraft storytelling."
- UPI

"Pure Higgins."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Higgins makes the pages fly."
-NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd-Jack Higgins."
-ASSOCIATED PRESS

Editorial Reviews

Jack Higgins has produced some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years. The Killing Ground demonstrates why, serving up a fast-paced melodrama set in a shadowy and violent world where things—and people—are seldom what they seem.

The San Diego Union-Tribune

Add a pinch of Putin to the pot, boil for 300-plus pages, serve Higgins Stew to a reliably hungry audience. The Russians, it seems, are in search of lost swagger. According to the best thinkers in U.S. and U.K. corridors of power, they want to replay the Cold War. "But not with nuclear submarines this time," U.S. President Jake Cazalet is warned. Instead, with gas and oil judiciously used for bribing and/or browbeating-as the case warrants-in aid of the Putin vision. What he seeks is restoration, the return of his country to its glory days when no one dared toy with the Russian bear. To thwart and block becomes the task of master spy Sean Dillon and his tiny team of trusty operatives, who will need all the help they can get. Fortunately, it's available. Almost the equal of Dillon in geopolitical cunning-and every bit his equal in death-dealing-is the team's newest recruit, Harry Miller, a sort of latter-day Scarlet Pimpernel. To most observers, Miller appears a staid, color-me-gray MP unaccountably married to the eminently desirable Olivia Hunt, that talented and gorgeous ornament of the British stage. That he's actually a stone killer is, however, known well indeed to a very nasty coterie on the Russian side, who, in retaliation for ravages to their ranks accomplished by Miller forays, arrange a lethal contract. It backfires. Someone dear to all concerned is murdered by mistake. Aroused, considering themselves under attack, Sean Dillon & Co. plan a retaliation in kind and, in the end, as so often before, slay their dozens in defense of the realm. Clearly, Higgins (The Killing Ground, 2008, etc.) has little interest in varying the recipe, and readers who've savored before will no doubtsavor again.

Kirkus Reviews

"The master's master of spycraft storytelling."
- UPI

"Pure Higgins."
-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"Higgins makes the pages fly."
-NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd-Jack Higgins."
-ASSOCIATED PRESS

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