Jack Higgins

A classic thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed.

When Special Branch identifies a gangland boss caught in the nets of a fishing boat, his rotting body weighted down with seventy pounds of chain, they suspect the involvement of ruthless cross-Channel people traffickers and hand the case over to British Intelligence. The last time the Bureau had been called in, their undercover agent Paul Chavasse had ended up in jail. But that was nothing compared to this. This time Chavasse knows his enemy. As he embarks on what will be one of the most dangerous missions in his extraordinary career, Chavasse infiltrates the operation and soon discovers that these are no small-time smugglers. The perpetrators will stop at nothing to protect their brutal trade. Is this mission too deadly even for Chavasse?

With commando-like precision, an international escape ring is breaking Britain’s top criminals out of jail. Saboteurs, murderers, traitors, spies – all vanishing without a clue. Special Branch has discovered that Harry Youngblood will be next, but they are helpless to stop it. What they need is an agent with the cunning mind of a criminal and the cold heart of a killer. And the willingness to go to prison. Enter Paul Chavasse, who pulls off a spectacular robbery and gets seven years as Youngblood’s cellmate. And when Youngblood is sprung, Chavasse goes too, following a bizarre trail that takes him across the country and out into the English Channel for a violent showdown.

The Chief of the Bureau has a ‘simple’ job for Paul Chavasse – slip into Albania and eliminate a double agent. Then he can take a holiday. The innocent-sounding words are the prelude to a desperate race against time which leads Chavasse across land and sea in search of a priceless relic before it can fall into the hands of political extremists. With a diving expert and midget submarines to help him, what can go wrong? But a trap has been set. For him. By someone who has waited a long time for revenge. As his escape routes are remorselessly closed off, the indestructible Chavasse, whom no one could ever out-think or out-fight, is now headed straight for destruction – for Hell …

In 1959 agents acting for British Intelligence masterminded the famous escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. For Paul Chavasse, expert linguist and special agent of the Bureau, it had been a once-in-a-lifetime mission … But three years later, Whitehall summons him again for a top secret mission against the occupying Chinese forces. Chavasse is the only man who knows about Tibet. Who knows about the evil its oppressors are capable of. Who knows how to bring a vitally important space scientist back to the West alive. An illegal plane flight through the Himalayas, a dangerous rendezvous with the Tibetan freedom fighters, almost certain confrontation with a trigger-happy army and a vicious captor … Chavasse knew his mission would be difficult and dangerous. No one warned him it would be impossible.

Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he’s being called into action, a job has gone badly wrong – and it’s about to get a lot worse. Somewhere in Germany is hidden a manuscript that could rock Western Europe to its foundations: the testament of Martin Bormann. As Hitler’s private secretary – and an influential member of the Third Reich – the terrible secrets Bormann carried into oblivion are about to be revealed. Many who are now in power have much to lose. With instructions to secure the manuscript at all costs, British Intelligence's toughest trouble-shooter soon discovers that he isn't the only one trying to get his hands on the book. And his rivals will go to any lengths – any lengths – to beat him to it.

Nick Miller is Central Division’s maverick Detective Sergeant. Disliked and distrusted by friends and foes, he works alone. He crosses the line. And he gets results. The Graveyard Shift… Nick Miller is new to the graveyard shift – the midnight hours when the driven and the desperate come out to play. Tonight Ben Garvald is out of prison. After nine years inside, he’s back in the old neighbourhood. Back to his remarried ex-wife. Back for revenge. Brought in Dead… Then after a fatal night out, a girl’s body is pulled from an isolated stretch of river. The last person to see her alive had enemies on both sides of the fence. Miller wants justice. But so does her father – with or without the law on his side. Hell Is Always Today… And the Rainlover. Whose victims are always women. Always at night when the streets are wet. He could be any one of a thousand men. Hounded by the public and the press, Miller needs to find him before he strikes again. It’s time to throw out the rule book in the line of duty. GRAVEYARD TO HELL Jack Higgins’ gritty police saga set in the 1960s, first released as three short volumes and long out of print, is now reimagined as one gripping novel, packing a punch as only ‘The Legend’ of thriller fiction knows how.

Nick Miller is Central Division's maverick Detective Sergeant. Disliked and distrusted by friends and foes, he works alone. He crosses the line. And he gets results.

A detective takes on a vengeful ex-con in London's seedy underworld in this classic thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. After nine years in prison, thief Ben Garvald has been released, and he's headed back to the old neighborhood. His remarried ex-wife and sister-in-law aren't happy about it, and they've asked for police protection. Det. Sgt. Nick Miller, meanwhile, is hopeful; this may be an opportunity to finally locate the stolen money that was never recovered after Garvald's last heist. But a colleague of Miller's is jealous: He wants to crack the case himself, and will risk endangering everyone to do so. Miller's highly unorthodox methods are perfectly suited for the graveyard shift, the midnight hours when the driven and desperate come out to play. Tonight, his toughest opponent will be Garvald--and only one of them will live to see the dawn. From the author of such blockbusters as The Eagle Has Landed and the Sean Dillon novels, including Rain on the Dead, this is a hardboiled detective tale--originally published under the name Harry Patterson--in which the master of international intrigue focuses on one criminal, one cop, and a fast-paced cat-and-mouse game.

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 proverb In 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.

Forfatteren bliver ops gt af en ung kvindelig amerikansk historiker, som ved et tilf lde er kommet i besiddelse af en hemmeligstemplet britisk efterretningsrapport fra 2. verdenskrig. Hun l ner Higgins en kopi, men bliver f timer senere dr bt i en mystisk bilulykke. Da Higgins vender hjem efter at have identificeret hendes lig, er kopien fjernet, og nu bliver han virkelig nerv s. Dokumentet ikke alene bekr ftede hans egen version af Churchill-aff ren, men afsl rede en endnu mere opsigtsv kkende og dramatisk forts ttelse af sagen. Jack Higgins m have fat i Liam Devlin - hovedpersonen fra Higgins bog " rnen er landet" - for at kunne afsl re den kompromitterende sandhed. Jack Higgins er pseudonym for den britiske forfatter Harry Patterson (f. 1929), som har skrevet en lang r kke krimier og sp ndingsromaner. Hans gennembrudsroman, " rnen er landet" fra 1975, blev oversat til mange fremmedsprog og solgte over 50 millioner eksemplarer verden over. Siden er det blevet til dusinvis af b ger og flere filmatiseringer, og Jack Higgins er anerkendt som en af det tyvende rhundredes allerst rste krimiforfattere.