Drink with the Devil

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From one of the world's most popular authors comes a classic thriller involving the elusively brilliant terrorist turned hero Sean Dillon.
From The Eagle Has Landed to Angel of Death, Jack Higgins's novels have entertained millions with their relentlessly paced mix of intrigue and larger-than-life characters. "Higgins is a wonderful storyteller," says The New York Times, and his new book proves it again.
Drink with the Devil opens during 1985 off the northwest coast of England, where an audacious hijacking by Irish Protestant paramilitaries results in the disappearance of one hundred million pounds in gold bullion. The haul and hijackers are last known to be en route to Ireland on the seagoing barge Irish Rose, when it goes down in a fierce, sudden storm, leaving only two survivors—Michael Ryan, the mastermind behind the plot, and his mysterious accomplice, Martin Keogh.
Ten years later, with the peace process faltering in Ireland, the president of the United States receives... Tovább

Fülszöveg

From one of the world's most popular authors comes a classic thriller involving the elusively brilliant terrorist turned hero Sean Dillon.
From The Eagle Has Landed to Angel of Death, Jack Higgins's novels have entertained millions with their relentlessly paced mix of intrigue and larger-than-life characters. "Higgins is a wonderful storyteller," says The New York Times, and his new book proves it again.
Drink with the Devil opens during 1985 off the northwest coast of England, where an audacious hijacking by Irish Protestant paramilitaries results in the disappearance of one hundred million pounds in gold bullion. The haul and hijackers are last known to be en route to Ireland on the seagoing barge Irish Rose, when it goes down in a fierce, sudden storm, leaving only two survivors—Michael Ryan, the mastermind behind the plot, and his mysterious accomplice, Martin Keogh.
Ten years later, with the peace process faltering in Ireland, the president of the United States receives information about the whereabouts of the Irish Rose and her golden cargo-riches that may be used by terrorist powers to finance an Irish civil war. When an unexpected, sinister force becomes involved in the plot to retrieve the lost gold, it quickly becomes clear to British and American authorities that swift and desperate measures are necessary to resolve the crisis. Inspired by the old principle "Set a thief to catch a thief," the British prime minister assigns the task to Sean Dillon—once the most feared IRA enforcer, now in the employ of British intelligence. Step by step, a deadly cat-and-mouse game unfolds, as increasing odds and old allies from a deadly past confront Dillon. Anything less than his complete success will be disastrous.
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From the seats of command in Washington and London to the upper reaches and seas of Ireland and England, Drink with the Devil is a complex journey of intrigue, delivered by the master of thriller writers, sure to leave the reader happily breathless.
Since The Eagle Has Landed~oM of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written, including A Season in Hell, Storm Warning, and Day of Judgement, has become an international best-seller. He has had simultaneous number-one best-sellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, among them The Eagle Has Landed, A Prayer for the Dying, To Catch a King, Confessional, Night of the Fox, and most recently, On Dangerous Ground,
Higgins, who lived in Belfast until he was twelve, had several close calls with bombs and gunfire at an early age. After leaving school at fifteen, he served three years with the Royal Horse Guards in Eastern Europe during the cold war. Subsequently he was a circus roustabout, a factory worker, a truck driver, and a laborer, before entering college at age twenty-seven. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands, where he is at work on his next novel.
Jacket design and image adjusting © 1996 by Rob Wood/Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.
Jacket photograph © 1988 by E. Nagele/FPG International
Photograph of the author © by Joe Bates
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