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英國軍事驚悚小說的大師新書一推出立即登上暢銷排行榜！
Number 5 on the Sunday Times bestseller list!
A DARKER PLACE by Jack Higgins
Hardback / 978-0-0072-9493-0 / April 2009
Fiction / 368 pages / Harper Collins UK
Material: manuscript
關於本書：
俄國小說家及前蘇聯傘兵 Alexander Kurbsky 因非常厭惡普丁政府的施政，決定讓
他消失在西方世界的新聞中，並計畫演一場政變給西方領袖看，不料當計畫一步
步進行的同時，英美的情報局也開始積極的加入這場遊戲中，似乎這看似鬧劇的
政變也變的無法收拾….
作者簡介：
傑克‧ 哈吉斯（Jack Higgins）是驚悚小說的大師，他一生一共出版了六十多本驚
悚類小說，被英國媒體譽為最賣座的作家。本名是 Harry Patterson。1929 年出生
在北愛爾蘭的首府貝爾法斯特一個有政治背景的家庭，年輕時就歷經不少北愛不
曾止息的政教爭端，以後作品中多北愛衝突的描寫，其來有致。後來他搬到里
茲，書沒唸完就輟學，打不少零工，包括在英軍服役兩年，時為冷戰時期，他擔
任皇家禁衛團士官，駐防東德邊境。退伍以後，就讀倫敦大學，也在馬戲團、電
車上打工。大學畢業，取得社會學學位，在成為全職作家前曾教過書。他在 1975
發表 The Eagle Has Landed（天降雄鷹），奠定名揚國際的暢銷作家地位；在此
之前，已經是一位冒險故事作者。他的小說給翻譯成四十種以上文字。他目前與
其妻住在英國海峽群島上的澤西。
Book Description:
"... the crisp writing shows Higgins to be on top of his game."
- Publishers Weekly
The unstoppable intelligence operative Sean Dillon is back in the ultimate blockbuster
from the 'legend' that is Jack Higgins!
A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky is fed up with
the Putin government and decides he wants to “disappear” into the West. He is under no
illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many
of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security
services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest
of the group known informally as the “Prime Minister’s private army” for his escape
and concealment.
It’s a real coup for the West except for one thing: Kurbsky is still working for the
Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American intelligence at the highest levels,
and he has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible. He does not
care what he has to do or where he has to go . . . or who he has to kill.
Sean Dillon (Jack Higgins character)
Sean Dillon is a fictional Irish character who is the hero of certain Jack Higgins novels. He
is described in the stories as a short man and fair-haired. An aspiring actor at the age of 19,
Dillon takes up being an IRA member, seeking revenge after his father is killed in Belfast in
the crossfire between the British and the IRA. He is a protégé of Liam Devlin
He is taught several things by Devlin, including the 'eerie dog-whistle'. An excellent gunman
and a good actor, he very soon earns the nickname "The Man of 1000 Faces" from the
British, who dread him. He is noted for his part in the Downing Street bomb blast, which
fails to kill or injure anyone. His disapproval of the IRA's indiscriminate bombings of
innocent civilians prompts him to abandon the cause and offer himself out as a mercenary
for hire, working indiscriminately for the PLO and the Israelis, the Red Brigade, and even
the KGB. Although the British are desperate to catch him, he has never been to jail. For
more than 20 years the elusive and resourceful Dillon—who shunned the publicity favored
by other terrorists—slipped through the fingers of the authorities on every continent.
Ironically, he is finally caught by the Serbs while running medicine for children into Bosnia.
It is revealed that the shipment contained Stinger missiles without his knowledge, and he is
sentenced to death. Dillon is plucked out of prison by Brigadier Charles Ferguson of the elite
British Security Service antiterrorist unit Group 4, who offers him a clean slate in exchange
for his services.
Dillon — an expert pilot and scuba diver as well as a master of disguise and languages —
subsequently becomes Ferguson's most effective agent, at one point even foiling an
assassination attempt upon the Prime Minister and President of the United States. Dillon
soon meets Ferguson's right-hand woman Hannah Bernstein, and is slightly romantically
inclined towards her. He also befriends the US President's right-hand man, Blake Johnson,
and famous London gangsters Harry Salter and his nephew Billy Salter.
Dillon's favorite handgun is a Walther PPK with Carswells silencer and his favorite rifle is
an AK-47. His preferred explosive is Semtex.
Dillon's drink of choice is Non-vintage Krug Champagne, due to the grape mix, and his
second drink of choice is Bushmills whiskey.
Sean Dillon appears in the following books:
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Eye of the Storm (1992)
Thunderpoint (1993)
On Dangerous Ground (1994)
Angel of Death (1995)
Drink with the Devil (1996)
The President’s Daughter (1997)
The White House Connection (1999)
Day of Reckoning (2000)
Edge of Danger (2001)
Midnight Runner (2002)
Bad Company (2003)
Dark Justice (2004)
Without Mercy (2005)
The Killing Ground (2007)
 Rough Justice (2008)
About the author: http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/users/gert/higgins/
Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. 'The
Eagle Has Landed' turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels
have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages.
Many of them have also been made into successful films.
THE KILLING GROUND by Jack Higgins
Paperback / 978-0-00-722368-8 / May 2008
Fiction / 320 pages/ Harper Collins UK
Material: manuscript
Rights sold:
Brazil (Record),
Estonia (Eesti Raamat),
Finland (Gummerus),
France (Albin Michel),
Hungary (Pecsi Direkt),
Italy (Sperling & Kupfer)
Book Description:
Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of action and suspense is back with a brand new
adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon.
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it
will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow
airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England, but with family ties to a Bedouin
tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His
thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father and taken
to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God, one of the Middle East's
most feared terrorists. Dillon has had his own run-ins with the tribe, and when the
distraught man begs him for help, he sees a chance to settle some old scores – but Dillon
has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash, nor of the implacable
enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done, many men will die – and Dillon
may be one of them.
Reviews:
‘Open a Jack Higgins novel and you’ll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his
powers…first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action’ Sunday Express
‘Higgins is a master of his craft’ Daily Telegraph
‘A thriller writer in a class of his own’ Financial Times
‘The master craftsman of good, clean adventure’ Daily Mail
Rough Justice by Jack Higgins
Paperback / 978-0-00-727639-4 / November 2008
Fiction / 628 pages/ Harper Collins UK
Material: manuscript
Book Description:
Whilst checking up on the volatile situation in Kosovo the US
President's right-hand man Blake Johnson meets Major Harry
Miller, a member of the British Cabinet. Miller is there doing
his own checks for the British Prime Minister. When both men
get involved with a group of Russian soldiers about to commit
an atrocity, Miller puts and end to the scuffle with a bullet in the forehead of the ringleader. But this action has dire consequences not only for Miller and Johnson but their
associates too, including Britain's Sean Dillon, and all the way to the top of the British,
Russian and United States governments. Death begets death, and revenge leads only to
revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is over, many will be dead…