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A devil is indeed waiting . . .

The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise.

Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed.

For the assassination plan is only the beginning. . . .

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Publishers Weekly Review

Capt. Sara Gideon, "a brilliant linguist" just home from a rough tour in Afghanistan, joins the can-do ranks of Great Britain's anti-terrorism squad, the so-called "Prime Minister's private army," in bestseller Higgins's rousing if predictable 19th thriller featuring former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon (after 2010's The Judas Gate). Dillon and his team get on the trail of a Muslim terrorist, Ali Selim, who's offering a blessing to anyone who assassinates leaders of the Western world, including the U.S. president, who's soon due to arrive in London. Violence flares as the search extends from London to Pakistan and into the Persian Gulf, where the bad guys kidnap Gideon, heir to a banking fortune, and hold her for ransom. Higgins fans will appreciate the well-choreographed action sequences, but those seeking a nuanced view of the politics of terrorism or characters with real depth will have to look elsewhere. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

After two decades of turning out novels about Sean Dillon, the former IRA member and terrorist mercenary now working as a globetrotting problem solver for the British government, Higgins has his formula down pat. Here, the U.S. president is making a scheduled visit to London, and Al Qaeda's most important mover and shaker in London, Ali Selim, has just issued a public statement in which he's declared open season on the president. Can Dillon and his colleagues, former assassin Daniel Holley and Sara Gideon, newly assigned to the team, stop an assassination plot when they don't even know the identity of the plotter? The novel is, as usual, heavy on dialogue and exposition and rather light on action, but readers familiar with Higgins' storytelling will expect that. With each new novel, Higgins adds a bit to what we know about Dillon and his costars, keeping them interesting and opening them up a little more. Combine the lively and always engaging characters with another timely and plausible story, and you have another Higgins hit.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Jack Higgins is a writer and educator, born in Newcastle, England on July 17, 1929. The name is the pseudonym of Harry Patterson. He also wrote under the names of Martin Fallon, James Graham, and Hugh Marlowe during his early writing career. He attended Leeds Training College and eventually graduated from the University of London in 1962 with a B.S. degree in Sociology.

Higgins held a series of jobs, including a stint as a non-commissioned officer in the Royal House of Guards serving on the German border during the Cold War. He taught at Leeds College of Commerce and James Graham College. He has written more than 60 books including The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, Confessional, The Eagle Has Flown, and Eye of the Storm. Higgins is also the author of the Sean Dillon series. His novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages.

His title's The Death Trade and Rain on the Dead made The New York Times Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)