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JACK HIGGINS The world's master thriller writer A savage battle to the death in the Mediterranean. For a woman. For a lover. For a friend ... Oliver Grant. Decorated soldier, then Major in Military Intelligence. Now a case- hardened mercenary - selling his services to the highest bidder wherever the going is rough. Seemingly the perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia boss from a Libyan prison fortress. Except for one tiny detail. Grant doesn't want the job. It takes kidnap and threats to his younger sister before even Grant is forced to see sense. Dimitri Stavrou does not play games. But then Grant's beautiful, gentle lover turns up on the wrong end of a machine gun ... and he starts to realize just how much trouble he's in ... 'A superb storyteller' Daily Mail 'Exceptionally readable adventure ... smooth writing, life-size characters and plenty of exciting action' Sunday Times - from the back cover -
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