I Am a Big Jack Higgins Fan and He Has New Book Coming Out

Higgins Latest

I spent a lot time in my car each day and that went on for decades. Getting the latest Jack Higgins book on tape listening on my commute and reading parts of the books in print in the late evening was a real treat for me.  

At my job at a publishing company I was reading complex business documents and writing about professional authors, book schedules, and other tasks on a tight timeline.  I worked on indexes on New Years Eve and we had deadlines that often ran right through the Christmas season each year--it was all about time and money.  

Higgins was refreshing. It was a thrill to step into my car and get started each day. Often his novels were read by Patrick Macnee the former star of the Avengers--and he hammed it up big time, but it was fun.  I especially loved the Sean Dillon series, about the smallish man with an IRA background come to fight the wrongs that often faced the United States and Great Britian. 

Here's the publisher's description of the new book:

“The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it.”—Irish proverb

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: You may think you have weakened us, but you have only made us stronger. In Washington, D.C., a special projects director with the CIA, frustrated at not getting permission from the President for his daring anti-terrorism plan, decides to put it in motion anyway. He knows he’s right—the nation will thank him later.

Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake. Desperate men will act, secrets will be revealed—and the midnight bell will toll.

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Larry Norris is the author of  The Brown and White.