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A death in Brooklyn reverberates around the globe in Jack Higgins’s gripping thriller. Journalist Katherine Johnson falls victim to the wrath of international crime boss Jack Fox, forcing her former husband, Blake Johnson, to leave his FBI career behind. As head of the clandestine White House department known as The Basement, Blake enlists his Irish ally Sean Dillon to map out Fox’s money trail and strike back by crippling the crime lord’s operations in New York, England, Ireland, and the Middle East. However, Fox’s own network of vengeance presents a perilous counterattack, threatening to undo the investigators’ plans in a deadly game of retribution.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Crime Fiction/Organized Crime
Authors: Jack Higgins
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