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by: Jack Higgins  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780007276417 ISBN: 0007276419 Label: Harper Collins Omes Manufacturer: Harper Collins Omes Number Of Pages: 448 Publisher: Harper Collins Omes Studio: Harper Collins Omes Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Intrigue in the halls of power, blood in the streets— the master of suspense returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds. After almost two score books, Higgins knows how to fire up a thriller,” wrote Publishers Weekly about the author’s latest book, The Killing Ground. “It’s all pure Higgins: almost every shot hits square between the eyes, and all the characters are hard lads indeed.” But none of them harder than the heroes—and villains—of Rough Justice. Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque—or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates, including Britain’s Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia. Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is done—from Kosovo to London to Beirut to Ireland to Moscow—there will be plenty of both. Rich with all the ingredients that have made the author justly admired, Rough Justice is further proof that, in the words of the Associated Press, “When it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd—Jack Higgins.” Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Fantastic! True Sean Dillion thriller.Loved it. My husband couldn't wait for me to finish it. I stayed up all night (while I slept) to read it. Fantastic book. I've read all of Jack Higgins books. The Sean Dillion character are my favorite. Rating:  - Thirty years too lateI was a fan of Higgins back in the 70s but, sadly, in the last twenty years or so he has devolved quite a bit. This book was simply unreadable. He is stuck in the Old Boy school of writing, something like a Boys Own adventure tale with tons of drinking and smoking, no sex, constant conversations where people speak like the English upperclass in the 60's, etc. And guns? He gets them wrong almost without fail. He talks about a Colt .25 revolver when the .25 was always a semi-auto round. ... Read More Rating: - surprisingly goodI noticed that in the last couple of Dillion novels that he has become such a one dimensional and tired character. I didn't come into this book thinking that it would be that good in fact I thought it was going to be the same ole same ole Dillon novel(and in some ways it could be termed that) but one of the strongest things about this is the fact that Higgins doesn't overuse Dillon in this book as he does the other ones(I think he realized that Dillon is quite tired.) We are introduced ... Read More Rating: - The Master CraftJack Higgins is a Master of Suspense. He is a remarkably talented writer who knows his genre and knows what it takes to keep us fans coming back for another go with a cast of characters we've all come to know in return. In an age of YOUTUBE and video game storylines it is nice to delve into a well-plotted, well-crafted saga where the terrible demons and dragons come in the shape and form of dangerous men. Also, where the knight in shining armor has more than a few character dents and occasional ... Read More Rating:  - Better than recent Higgins novels.I had almost given up on Jack Higgins. I thought the last couple of novels were predictable and tired. This novel was better. Not great, just better. Let's not go to Ireland in a boat again, shall we? A new character being developed, but sadly does not participate in the finale. The book was good enough for me to read the next one, but just barely. 
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