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Sean Dillon) volume 22
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"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own....
2) Dark justice
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Sean Dillon) volume 12
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It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand. Fortunately, his attempt is not successful--but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods...
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Sean Dillon volume 20
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An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
4) Bad company
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Sean Dillon volume 11
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Near the end of World War II, Hitler gave his personal diary to an aid for safekeeping. Containing minutes from a secret meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt, it outlined plans to join forces against the Soviet Union. Ironically, the American representative was a direct relative of Jake Cazalet, the current U.S. president. Now this diary has become a powerful weapon.
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Sean Dillon) volume 18
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A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge...
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Sean Dillon volume 7
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Someone is killing off the members of a splinter group known as the Sons of Erin. Normally not a cause for much concern but this could lead to the fall of two governments and the derailing of the entire Irish peace process, so the assassin must be stopped.
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Sean Dillon volume 10
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The powerful and fabulously wealthy Rashid family is down but not out. British agent Sean Dillon and his associates killed the three Rashid brothers, who were attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. But Kate Rashid has taken up the reins and has wicked plans of her own -- including Dillon's demise and a devastating interruption of the world's oil supply.
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Sean Dillon) volume 13
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Intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive-but only one of them does.
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Sean Dillon volume 9
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The Rashid family, half British, half Arab, is directing its rage against the United States, whose president they hold responsible for a series of attacks against their power and honor. From opposite ends of the world, hints are picked up by Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House operation known as the Basement, and his Irish colleague, Sean Dillon, but hints to what and by whom?
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Sean Dillon volume 3
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As 1997 approaches, England's prime minister learns of a secret document signed by Mao Tse-tung that could delay the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong for an additional 100 years. The British hire former terrorist Sean Dillon to keep the document from coming to light, before parties in Hong Kong retrieve it and destroy the balance of world power.
11) Angel of death
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Sean Dillon volume 4
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Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon races against time to hunt down the deadly ""January 30"" terrorists, independent, ruthless killers plotting a peace-destroying assassination, before he himself falls prey to the ultimate assassin, the Angel of Death.
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Sean Dillon volume 5
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With the peace process breaking down in Ireland, former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon plays a deadly cat-and-mouse game with sinister forces as he races against time to recover a vast fortune in gold bullion, hijacked and lost at sea some ten years before. Lit Guild Main.
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On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier, who is also a bit more than that, takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, when a man comes up fast behind...
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Sean Dillon volume 6
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During the Vietnam War, a brave young American saved the life of a French woman whose husband was reported dead. After a brief, passionate affair, the two learned that her husband was indeed alive. Twenty years later, the young man is President of the United States. On a trip to Paris, she comes to meet him with a lovely young person: her daughter, she says ... and his.
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For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England, but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father and taken to Iraq to be married...
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"A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary...
17) Rough justice
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Blake Johnson travels to Kosovo on a mission assigned by the U.S. President. Major Harry Miller is there on a similar mission for the Prime Minister of Great Britain. When Miller intervenes with a group of soldiers planning a vicious act, their leader is killed, setting off an explosive series of events whose conclusion is very much in doubt.
18) A darker place
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In Russia, Alexander Kurbsky is both an infamous writer and an ex-paratrooper. Disappointed with the current government, he makes plans with Sean Dillon, Charles Furguson, and members of the Prime Minister's private army to help him disappear into the West, even though many before him have died when attempting this journey.
19) Eye of the storm
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Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses--and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening -- and true -- event: Iraq's attempted mortar attack on...
20) Thunder point
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In 1992, the wreck of Nazi leader Martin Bormann's submarine is discovered in the Caribbean, along with a secret list of Nazi sympathizers. The names include high-level citizens from the U.S. and Great Britain, but the evidence is at the bottom of the sea. The British government turns to its greatest enemy for help, infamous terrorist Sean Dillon.