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Rough justice

Title:

Rough justice

Author:

Higgins, Jack, 1929-2022, author.

Series:

Sean Dillon ;

Series Number:

15.

Summary:

Sent to Kosovo on a mission, agent Blake Johnson joins forces with British operative Harry Miller to stop a Russian officer in the act of torching a mosque, a lethal action that will have profound repercussions for both agents.

General Note:

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.

Physical Description:

417 p. ; 19 cm.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Spy fiction.

Subject Term:

Johnson, Blake (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Dillon, Sean (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Intelligence officers -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Berkley Pub. Group,

Publication Date:

2009

2008

ISBN:

9780425228630

Publication Information:

New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 2009, c2008.

Call Number:

HIGGINS

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Summary

In Kosovo, American Blake Johnson and Major Harry Miller of Britain band together just in time to stop a rogue Russian captain from desecrating a helpless village. Actually, Miller stops him...with a couple of bullets to the head.

In the world of covert operations, death begets death-revenge leads only to revenge. And before the explosive situation is put to rest, there will be plenty of both.

Author Notes

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)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

The solid 15th entry in Higgins's Sean Dillon thriller series (after The Killing Ground) finds aging, arthritic ex-gangster Harry Salter retired from active operations, leaving Dillon, once the IRA's most feared enforcer, as the real leader of the loose gang of stalwart lads who covertly battle the foes of Western civilization. A newcomer to the team, Maj. Harry Miller, on the surface a mild-mannered MP who's in reality the British prime minister's secret hit man, hooks up with series regular Blake Johnson in Kosovo, where the Russians, intent on reclaiming old glory, are stirring up trouble. Meanwhile, Islamic fundamentalists are intent on bringing Britain to its knees. The action moves swiftly amid a variety of foreign locales, including Moscow, London and Beirut, to a climax that will leave readers asking themselves, evidence to the contrary, whether the great game is really over. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

While in Kosovo, Blake Johnson, an aide to the president of the United States, meets Harry Miller, a military agent for the British prime minister. The two become entangled in an incident with a Russian military squad that results in the British agent shooting a Russian soldier who was trying to torch a mosque. This killing in turn leads to a series of escalating retaliatory actions from the Russians that affect Johnson and Miller, as well as other British and American associates. The book features several characters from earlier Higgins novels (e.g., The Killing Ground, Without Mercy, and Dark Justice) and contains the same kind of action and adventure. A series of flashbacks helps to fill in the background story, so readers unfamiliar with Higgins's continuing series characters will be able to follow the plot. Because Higgins has a large fan base, this book will be of interest in all public libraries.--Joel Tscherne, Cleveland P.L. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.