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ANGEL OF DEATH
by Jack Higgins
Boulevard, April 1996
341 pages
$7.99
ISBN: 0425152235


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Jack Higgins still has the touch. This is an absorbing, fast-paced thriller in the best sense of the word. The plot is current, and quite believable. Once again, ex-IRA terrorist Sean Dillon is teamed with Scotland Yard DCI Hannah Bernstein and her boss, Brigadier Charles Ferguson. He runs an elite intelligence unit responsible only to the Prime Minister of England. Apolitical, the unit has, inevitably, become an action unit as well.

Ferguson enlists Dillon in an attempt to run down a mysterious group known as "January 30." This is a group that has murdered a variety of people operating in the shadow world of international espionage and terrorism. January 30 appears to play no favorites, having been identified as killing former KGB agents, American diplomats and even Israelis. Now they plot to destroy the tenuous peace process taking hold in Northern Ireland. ANGEL OF DEATH, told in flashbacks and present-day action, carries the reader pell-mell from Ireland to England, to America, Beirut, and back. Along the way the reader is treated to imaginative convoluted twists and accommodations of the diplomatic games nations play, set against brutal and abrupt physical action. You'll see Dillon the charmer with a gift of gab, Dillon the stone killer and Dillon the experienced, intelligent agent, provocateur.

As always, Higgins characters are sharply drawn and always consistent. As always Higgins sense of place is thoughtfully and evocatively laid out so we are with him in the mean streets of Belfast and the elegant rooms of Ardmore House.

Reviewed by Carl Brookins, April 1996

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