Dark Justice

I just discovered Jack Higgins "Sean Dillon" series and just cant seem to get enough of them. I have read probably l0 or ll of them now and have not been dissappointed in any of them

The story starts out in the United States with a failed attempt on the President's life. It evolves from there with the who, how, why of how the plan was foiled. The story continues across the ocean with the original plotters upset at having their plans destroyed. This book is well written, keeps the reader in suspense, has intrigue, would be terrorists, heroes in wheelchairs, former IRA members, Russians, and more. This will go on my bookcase of keepers.

I continue to plow through Jack Higgins titles at a fairly brisk pace. His novels of intrigue and espionage are like an open bag of potato chips; you just can't eat one! With "Dark Justice," Higgins addresses the post-9/11 world of anti-terrorism - both in the U.S. and in the U.K. In each nation, the response to heightened threats of terrorism has been to create a shadow counter-terrorism team - one reporting soley to the U.S. President, the other reporting to the Prime Minister. The plot ingredients for "Dark Justice" include a former IRA terrorist who now works for the Prime Minister in combatting terror, a Russian oil mogol who is a friend of Putin, a failed assassination attempt on the American President, and internal conflict within the Prime Minister's shadow team about the moral dilemma of operating "above the law" in order to have a fighting chance to thwart the terrorists. As always, Higgins adds his own special blend of spices - well-drawn characters and unanticipated plot twists that makes this "bag of potato chips" delicious, crunchy and satisfying. Al

Reading this series of books about Sean Dillon & Co. is a "guilty pleasure" like eating too much candy. You know you're going to enjoy it, but the taste quickly leaves you after the candy (or the book) is finished. This is "light reading", of course, and should be considered nothing else. You go into the book knowing that Dillon and his friends are going to win out in the end, even if occasionally one of them ends up injured. The bad guys are typically evil, and the kind of folks you root for to come to a bad end. It's not great literature, but a welcome break from heavier, nore meaningful works. So enjoy the ride with Sean; you won't regret it!

A Muslim raised in England as a Christian, Henry sneaks into the United States and stakes out a place across the street from where the president is supposed to be having dinner with a New York Senator. As he is about to shoot, Blake Johnson, head of the president's top secret security force and a secret service agent confront him, informing the Brit that the ammo from his gun has been removed and the president flew back to Washington D.C. Before the assassin kills himself, he tells, them the "Beware the Wrath of Allah." Blake's counterpart in England, General Ferguson, informed the White House about the assassination attempt. Now the general, Sean Dillion and Hannah Bernstein have to trace the assassin's movements back to the source which turns out to be a mosque run by a man who is recruiting British Muslims and sending them to terrorist training camps in the mid-east. When they return, they will be martyrs in Allah's name. Working behind the scenes is a Russian billionaire and his chief security officer who want to sow dissension in the west and is funding The Wrath of Allah. Ferguson's unit gets in their way one too many times of the Russian and becomes a target for these power hungry megalomaniacs. Jack Higgins has written a very exciting and action-packed thriller that shows how Britain is fighting the war on terror. Sean Dillon, a stone cold killer who was an enforcer for the IRA before being recruited by the General is the hero of this book as he seeks justice for the innocents who get caught in the cross-fire. Although he works outside the law and his methods are cold blooded and calculating, the author portrays him as a believable anti-hero who appeals to readers that believe that justice and the law doesn't always go hand in hand. Dark Justice is definitely heading for the bestseller lists, deservedly so. . Harriet Klausner