A Darker Place (edition 2010)

by Jack Higgins (Author), Rob Wood (Cover designer)

Series: Sean Dillon (book 16)

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Title:	A Darker Place
Authors:	Jack Higgins (Author)
Other authors:	Rob Wood (Cover designer)
Info:	Berkley (2010), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 352 pages
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Higgins can still keep me reading far into the night. Dillon, one of the main characters from earlier books, actually had only a small role in this one. Hopefully Alexander Kurbsky and his friend, Bounine, will appear in future books as part of the PM's 'private army'. (

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mysterymax | Jan 19, 2012 |

A Darker Place is vintage Jack Higgins: renowned Russian writer and war hero Alexander Kurbsky decides to ‘vanish’ into the west so Sean Dillon and the group known as ‘The Prime Minister’s Private Army’ are called in to assist and protect him.
The Iron Curtain may be down but Russia dislikes high placed defectors and tends to discourage them, fatally. However, all is not as it seems…

Kurbsky is actually a lethally efficient spy, strategically positioned to win Western trust at the highest levels. Fortunately Sean, as usual, is on hand to save the day yet again in a series of derring-do adventures. Boys Own fun. (

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adpaton | Jun 12, 2009 |

The sixteenth episode in this series is as entertaining and exciting as its predecessors. The series may have become formulaic but it is a formula that works for me. The cutting between the story locations, flashbacks, and protagonists generates an energetic sense of pace. (

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Series (with order)

Sean Dillon (book 16)

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A Darker Place

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Chamber Court, Belsize Park, London, England, UK

Holland Park, London, England, UK

Paris, France

New York, New York, USA

Moscow, Russia

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A meeting in New York.

A meeting with Putin

Defect, decrit and death in France.

Abduction with towels in London.

Explosion of a fast boat on the river.

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Once again, for Denise
and Brewer Street

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Fresh from the shower, Monica Starling sat at the dressing table in her suite at the Pierre and applied her make-up carefully.

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Avoid looking into an open grave. You may see yourself there.

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Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the 'legend' that is Jack Higgins Disillusioned with the Putin Government, famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper Alexander Kurbsky decides he wants to disappear into the West. However he is under no illusions about how the news will be greeted at home - he has seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army" for his escape and concealment. It's a real coup for the West...except for one thing. Kurbsky is still working for the Russians. The plan is to infiltrate British and American intelligence at the highest levels, and he has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible. He does not care what he has to do or where he has to go...or whom he has to kill.

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Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."… (more)

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