"The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it." - Irish proverb ? From "the dean of intrigue novelists" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch ) comes a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge. ? ???? In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. ???? In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the "Prime Minister's private army," fresh from defeating a deadly al-Qaeda operation, receive a warning:...