Book description
Treachery has a price, in the mesmerizing Sean Dillon thriller from the
Sunday Times-bestselling author.
Helmand Province, Afghanistan: a lone convoy edges its way towards a
deserted mountain village, led by US Army Rangers in Mastiff APVs.
Stopping to search the area, the Rangers are hit by a massive roadside
bomb, and as half the patrol lie dead or injured, the rest are ambushed
with military precision. A nearby British medical team responds to the
call for back-up, but all are slaughtered when their Chinook helicopter
is blown up.
The ambush is bad, but what's worse is that, amidst the battlefield
chatter picked up by Major Giles Roper, not all the Taliban voices are
Afghan - some are English, and the commander bears an Irish accent; he
even names himself 'Shamrock'. Why would he commit such an atrocity, but
more importantly can he be found before he masterminds another?
Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor down, with all the
resources of the 'Prime Minister's private army' at his disposal. The
fast and furious plot sweeps the reader from Pakistan to Algeria to
London to Paris to Ireland, with many deaths along the way. The stakes
are already high for Dillon and company then a familiar, deadly face
makes a dramatic reappearance. This time, Dillon will not only be going
to war - the war will be coming to him, and he will learn that this
Judas has al-Qaeda on his side… 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 sixty
languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films
