THE MIDNIGHT BELL

By Jack Higgins

Synopsis

In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the “Prime Minister’s private army,” receive a warning from a new leader of al-Qaeda, who calls himself simply the Master. Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake.

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Narrator	Jonathan Oliver
Length	8hrs 10mins
Catalogue No.	13086
Publisher	HarperCollins; 2017

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