A Season in Hell

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With A Season in Hell, Jack Higgins confirms his supremacy as our reigning master of sus-pense and action. Following on the heels of his major best-seller, Night of the Fox, his new növel is a spine-tingling tale of crime and revenge.
The time is 1983. A young Cambridge student enters a Paris café to ask a question. Later that night his broken body is discovered on the dark and brooding quais of the Seine----
His stepmother, a young widow, Sarah Talbot, is determined to uncover the suspicious circumstances surrounding her beloved step-son's tragic death, but finds all official roads to justice blocked. If she is to have satisfaction, it can only come from taking matters into her own hands.
Her quest will lead her from the august and secret offices of MI5 in London to a dan-gerous and deserted warehouse outside Paris, from the mountain fortress of a Mafia don in Sicily to the deceptively elegant estate of a wealthy, high-placed Ulster politician.
Sarah's partner and guide in her... Tovább

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With A Season in Hell, Jack Higgins confirms his supremacy as our reigning master of sus-pense and action. Following on the heels of his major best-seller, Night of the Fox, his new növel is a spine-tingling tale of crime and revenge.
The time is 1983. A young Cambridge student enters a Paris café to ask a question. Later that night his broken body is discovered on the dark and brooding quais of the Seine----
His stepmother, a young widow, Sarah Talbot, is determined to uncover the suspicious circumstances surrounding her beloved step-son's tragic death, but finds all official roads to justice blocked. If she is to have satisfaction, it can only come from taking matters into her own hands.
Her quest will lead her from the august and secret offices of MI5 in London to a dan-gerous and deserted warehouse outside Paris, from the mountain fortress of a Mafia don in Sicily to the deceptively elegant estate of a wealthy, high-placed Ulster politician.
Sarah's partner and guide in her pursuit of vengeance is a mysterious young SAS sergeant, Sean Egan—an eloquent loner, the ultimate soldier, a man steeped in the ways of violence but not hardened by it. A study in contradictions, Egan is a careful, thoughtful man—but a man to whom killing is as natural as breathing. Only he knows how impossibly
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difíicult a task Sarah has set herself, and what the odds are against her succeeding—or sur-viving. For she has ranged against herself the most secret and powerful of institutions, legal and illegal, while in the shadows, the myste-rious "Mr. Smith," a suave archcriminal, waits and watches, a spider playing his own deadly game with the help of a hired assassin, the cool and charming Jago, who holds relentlessly to
his own twisted morál code____
If Sarah is to survive among these killers, she must learn to think—and to act—as they do. Together, she and Egan will plumb the depths of a world that turns a blind eye to conspiracy and greed, a world in which man's capacity for evil is almost boundless, a world in which revenge truly is ua season in Hell/'
Jack Higgins is the author of the major interna-tional phenomenon The Eagle Has Landed, and every book of his since has been a bestseller, including his most recent Night of the Fox. He lives in the Channel Islands with his wife. Vissza