THE MIDNIGHT BELL

By Jack Higgins

In this newest adventure starring Sean Dillon, he is taking on the new leader of a very well-known terrorist group, al-Qaeda. This new leader calls himself the ‘Master,’ but everything else about him remains a big secret. Now Dillon has just taken out previous leaders, but this time around the Master has plans to make sure he doesn’t end up suffering the same fate as the monsters that preceded him. He has decided to eliminate Dillon before he’s able to add another ‘notch to his gun barrel.’

The Master contacts Dillon to annoy him, brag about his abilities, and find out just how much he knows about him personally, his officials and their operations. Dillon’s allies, as usual, include Vietnam vet Blake Johnson, who runs “The Basement” which is the American President’s personal security department, and Dillon’s cousin, Hannah Flynn, who is just nineteen years old and a gun-toting gal who isn’t at all upset by violence. She had grown up in an IRA family and knows how to handle a weapon.

But Dillon’s mission will run parallel to a no-name criminal who kills a woman in a drunken automobile accident, as well as a man who works for the CIA and wants nothing more than to voice his anti-terrorism plans and be heard.

Many readers of Jack Higgins, and there are certainly millions, will love this as much as any other title Higgins has been able to create over the years. As always, this is action-packed and offers an intricate plot that all comes together easily and succinctly in the end.

As a huge fan of Jack Higgins, I’m looking forward to the next book featuring Sean Dillon as I close the pages on this one.