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It is one of a series of books featuring the ex-IRA philosopher/killer Sean Dillon as the antihero. [1] It debuted at No. 6 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for fiction. [ 2 ]
Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson [4] on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne to an English father and a Northern Irish mother. [1] When his father abandoned them soon afterward, his mother returned with him to her home town of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to live with her mother and her grandfather on the Shankill Road.
Dillon's favourite handgun is a Walther PPK with Carswell silencer and his favourite rifle is an AK-47. His preferred explosive is Semtex. His favorite 'hide-out' gun is a .25 Colt strapped to his ankle. Dillon's drink of choice is non-vintage Krug champagne, due to the grape mix, and his second drink of choice is Bushmills Irish whiskey.
An IRA gunman and expert diver, Sean Dillon, is in prison in Yugoslavia. Ferguson and Lane visit him. Ferguson reveals to Dillon that he had him set up. Dillon had flown a plane carrying medical supplies to Yugoslavia but it also carried missiles, leading to Dillon being captured by the Serbs. Ferguson offers Dillon a clean slate if he works ...
As well as appearing in The Eagle Has Landed and The Eagle Has Flown, Devlin also appears as a major character in the Higgins novels Touch the Devil and Confessional. In other novels, Devlin has made cameo appearances as a mentor to Sean Dillon (in Drink with the Devil , The President's Daughter and Day of Reckoning ) and Martin Brosnan (in Eye ...
The novel features Higgins' regular Sean Dillon, along with both American and British government operatives in a volatile Kosovo, made more so when one puts a bullet through the head of the ring leader of a group of Russian soldiers. While Dillon appears at various points in the story the lead character is an ex-army intelligence officer, Major ...
Dillon and Bernstein's search for Quinn takes them to Beirut. Dillon is captured by an Israeli soldier, Anya, and her brothers, who want Dillion to interrogate one of Quinn's men. The interrogation leads them to a ship. Dillon blows up the ship, killing Quinn in the process, leaving the Sons of Ulster requiring a new leader.
Includes a deck of cards, a map and three books: The Book of the Fifth Age, Dusk or Dawn, and Heroes of the New Age. [50] [51] [52] Heroes of Steel: Skip Williams 1996 Includes a map and two books: Book one (expands on rules from The Book of the Fifth Age) and Book two (adventure module The Rising Storm). [53] Splatbook focuses on the warrior ...