The White House Connection

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unites the team or
The Presidents Daughter to go after a most curious assassin—^but one with the power to bring down nations.
For many years, Jack Higgins's "battalions of loyal fans" (People) have delighted in his "rip-roaring, satisfying stories" (Associated Press), novels of honor and bravery and irresistible intrigue. "Readers get exacdy what they hope for from Higgins," says Publishers Weekly, and never has that been truer than with his new thriller. The White House Connection.
New York: Late at night, the rain pouring , down, a well-dressed woman in her sixties stands in a doorway, a gun in her purse, waiting for a senator to come home.
;; j Washington, D.C.: The phone rings on the desk of Blake Johnson, head of the White House department known as The Basement. The President wants him now.
London: The Prime Minister sits thinking of Sean Dillon, the onetime terrorist, now his most eflfective, if not exactly most trusted, operative. It'll have to be Dillon, he thinks.... Tovább

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unites the team or
The Presidents Daughter to go after a most curious assassin—^but one with the power to bring down nations.
For many years, Jack Higgins's "battalions of loyal fans" (People) have delighted in his "rip-roaring, satisfying stories" (Associated Press), novels of honor and bravery and irresistible intrigue. "Readers get exacdy what they hope for from Higgins," says Publishers Weekly, and never has that been truer than with his new thriller. The White House Connection.
New York: Late at night, the rain pouring , down, a well-dressed woman in her sixties stands in a doorway, a gun in her purse, waiting for a senator to come home.
;; j Washington, D.C.: The phone rings on the desk of Blake Johnson, head of the White House department known as The Basement. The President wants him now.
London: The Prime Minister sits thinking of Sean Dillon, the onetime terrorist, now his most eflfective, if not exactly most trusted, operative. It'll have to be Dillon, he thinks. There's no one else.
Someone is killing off the members of a splinter group known as the Sons of Erin, normally not a cause for much concern, but the consequences are much greater than anyone realizes. For in these actions lie the seeds of disaster: the fall of two governments and the derailment of the Irish peace process. Dillon and Johnson must stop this unknown assassin, the heads of state agree, quickly, quietly, before all hell breaks loose
But they may already be too late. For in the Manhattan night, the silver-haired woman smiles, adjusts her rain hat more snugly on her head, and steps out into the street. Four down, she diinks.
Three to go.
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Jack Higgins has written thrilling adventures before, but none as multilayered, surprising, and suspenseful as The White House Connection. Here is the master working truly at the height of his powers.
Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written, including Flight of Eagles, 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 successnil movies, among them The Eagle Has Landed, Eye of the Storm, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, and Thunder Point.
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 Lictoty 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, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands.
Jacket design and aiustration © 1999 Rob Wood/ Wood Ronsaville Harlin, Inc.
Illustration of Washington Monument based on photograph © Peter Gridley/FPG Intemational LLC
Photograph of the author © 1997Joe Bates
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