Day of Reckoning

Day of Reckoning
Jack Higgins

The incomparable Jack Higgins returns to the bestseller lists, launching undercover enforcer Sean Dillon into a most spectacular adventure – a no-holds-barred battle with a Mafia don.It’s all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they combine to thwart the ever more desperate ambition of Mafia frontman Jack Fox.Here in his eighth adventure, former IRA terrorist turned British Government enforcer Sean Dillon is established as one of the most popular characters in modern fiction, while Jack Higgins has an unrivalled position as the biggest name in thriller writing around the world.Widely hailed as an outstanding return to form, Day of Reckoning raced straight into 2011’s top ten of the Sunday Times bestseller list in hardback

Day of Reckoning

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2000

Copyright © Jack Higgins 2000

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Source ISBN: 9780008124892

Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780007373970

Version: 2015-07-20

Epigraph (#ua2effdb7-c4e7-572f-b0b9-b5317ef5163a)

When you have sinned grievously,

the Devil is waiting.

Sicilian Proverb

Contents

Cover (#u89ccb97d-5744-5e60-a221-e54d24f02bdd)

Title Page (#u76d9a179-7c59-5afb-9574-9bfa05990934)

Copyright (#uec61a7b2-aa2e-54c8-b767-5f4ab01090cc)

Epigraph (#ubbde09c6-4040-554b-84df-bf063992e442)

HELLSMOUTH (#udaa9d677-b71e-59b5-b6bf-3597278159e1)

Chapter 1 (#u5560fb7f-4d03-57f1-8c21-d272b2cc9879)

NEW YORK IN THE BEGINNING (#u44c362d4-3087-569a-8c3d-392f0e6ee6f6)

Chapter 2 (#ud03fd2c8-3dd6-51f9-b710-d7417042cb85)

Chapter 3 (#ufc93dbc0-48af-5486-acc5-1ae7e18a4321)

Chapter 4 (#uffb2ddb4-6b75-5e10-b57c-01cc74084e3d)

LONDON (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 5 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

LEBANON AL SHARIZ (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

LONDON (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

SCOTLAND IRELAND (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

LONDON (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

HELLSMOUTH (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)