Harry Patterson, better known by his pseudonym Jack Higgins, is all set to release his new novel, under the Sean Dillon series, in February 2008. Titled ‘The Killing Ground’, the book has all the usual ingredients of a Jack Higgins novel - action, suspense, thrill and adventure. Featuring the intelligence operative Sean Dillon, The Killing Ground revolves around a routine and ordinary passport check that leads to some extraordinary circumstances. To know how, what and when it happens, just glance at the synopsis given below.
The Book
Sean Dillon is an intelligence operative who is conducting a routine passport check at the Heathrow airport. However, the man he has stopped for the check is not ordinary. He is Caspar Rashid, a person born and brought up in England. He is a member of the Bedouin tribe, whose members have still not grown accustomed to the ways of the modern world and are still fiercely clutching on to their traditional ways. Rashid’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped and the culprit is none other than his own father.
The old man has abducted the girl to marry her off in Iraq, to a man known as 'Hammer of God', who also happens to be amongst the most dangerous terrorists of the Middle East. Rashid asks Dillon for help and this is where the thrill comes into the novel. As an operative, Dillon has had many clashes with Bedouin tribe and he sees this as an opportunity to get even. As the events unfold, Dillon is drawn into a web of deceit, mayhem and murder. Will Dillon be amongst the many who have lost their lives? To know, wait for the release.
The Author
Jack Higgins, who got recognition in 1975 with the novel The Eagle Has Landed, has written over 60 novels till date. The laudable part is that, the majority of these novels have attained the status of bestsellers. After majoring at Sociology at London School of Economics and studying Political Science thereafter, he worked for as a teacher. It was in 1959 that he began writing novels. His novels have been translated in 55 languages till date and a number of them have been made into movies too.
