Product Description

The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to the bestseller lists, launching undercover enforcer Sean Dillon into his most spectacular adventure yet -- a no-holds-barred battle with a Mafia don. It's all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox. Here in his eighth adventure, former IRA terrorist turned British Government enforcer Sean Dillon is established as one of the most popular characters in modern fiction, while Jack Higgins has an unrivalled position as the biggest name in thriller writing around the world. Widely hailed as an outstanding return to form, Day of Reckoning raced straight into the top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list in hardback

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #150503 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Jack Higgins's Fox is a Mafioso of the new breed--well-spoken, cultured, a war hero--but prepared to kill on reflex. When Fox kills a woman journalist for spying on his affairs, he omits to check out her past; her ex-husband, Blake Johnson, a security adviser to the President, swears bloody vengeance on him and is joined by his friends, notably Sean Dillion, the former IRA enforcer, in a crusade to humiliate Fox before killing him.

"We take this animal out, only we do it my way. It's too easy to shoot him on the street. I want this to be slow and painful. We destroy his miserable little empire bit by bit until he has nothing left. And then we destroy him."

In a sequence of short episodes, each of Fox's enterprises--a London casino, a deal with the Army of God over uranium-tipped missiles, a diamond heist, arming IRA holdouts against the peace process--is taken away from him; we know, though, from the start, that the final reckoning is still to come, and that Blake will find himself Fox's prisoner in the waterlogged cellars of a Cornish castle ... Higgins has a formula down pat, and will never disappoint his myriad fans. We get a lot of technical details about just how to blow up a ship or crack a safe, and a group of adventurers whose utter ruthlessness goes along with sentiment and loyalty. This is the mixture as before, efficiently done. --Roz Kaveney

Review
'Another page-turner from the master! one of the fastest-moving thrillers Higgins has penned for some time. It isn't just Higgins at his best, it is him at his most inventive and impressive.' Oxford Times 'Dillon makes his 8th appearance in this return-to-form thriller. As in the best of his earlier work, Higgins shifts the action with practised ease between London, Beirut and Ireland! this is Higgins as we like him to be.' Good Book Guide

About the Author
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 9th novel in the Sean Dillon series, Edge of Danger, will be published by HarperCollins in Spring 2001. 'HIGGINS IS THE MASTER' Tom Clancy

Customer Reviews

Very disappointing
I must agree with many of the reviews already written about this book. Having enjoyed "The Eagle has Landed" many years ago, I thought Higgins would be a relatively safe bet. I was surprised at how poor this book really was and am surprised I got all the way to the end (I guess I was hoping something would surprise me).
The characters are shallow and stereotypical and the storyline failed to excite.
No more Jack Higgins books for me!

Swift and sure . . .
With each book we find that Dillon REALLY doesn't care whether he lives or dies. His boldness is trademark. Ruthless, I enjoyed seeing Bernstein finally get up and walk away from it all. Higgins is doing well. However, Dillon, IS getting old. And some of the plots are predictable. I would like to see Higgins write another one about WWII, those are some of his best.

Another superb book from Jack Higgins
This is a book that you need to plan time to read as once you've started you wont be able to put it down.

Sean Dillon, the terrorist turned good guy, is portrayed superbly as an avenging angel assisting his American counterpart in exacting revenge for the murder of his wife. The story, involving the Mafia, Islamic terrorists and various Secret Services spreads across the world leaving an inevitable trail of death and destruction. The plot for revenge, co-ordinated by the totally believable Brigadier Ferguson flits across the globe culminating in the final crescendo as the Day of Reckoning arrives.

This book is typical of the consistently high standard that we have come to expect from Jack. The style is easy to read and the plot tingles with excitement as you are drawn into the story to the point where you feel that you are in the room with Mr Dillon & Co. Having finished the book, you are left feeling that the adventures of Sean Dillon are far from over and looking forward with relish to the next book that is surely in the pipeline.