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JACK HIGGINS The world's master thriller writer THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT One of the master's earliest successes - a menacing and memorable underworld thriller Ten p.m. until six in the morning are the hours that hard-pressed coppers always call the Graveyard Shift. Because of the quiet. Because the scent of death is never far away. And now because somewhere down in the city's seventy square miles of darkened, windswept streets, a dangerous armed robber is returning to extract his revenge ... Like everyone else at Central Division, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller knows the Garvald legend - and the women involved. But what his colleagues - and his quarry - don't know is just how far he is prepared to bend the rules while the city sleeps ... 'Jack Higgins is undoubtedly a master craftsman. His writing is cool and measured, his technical control seems effortless' - Sunday Telegraph 'A thriller writer in a class of his own' - Financial Times - from the back cover -
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by Harry Patterson