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JACK HIGGINS The world's master thriller writer WRATH OF THE LION The threat of war in the Atlantic means that the future of Europe is at stake ... In the long, dark years of the Cold War, not every battle merited centre stage. Many threats to Europe were imagined. But the dangers were real all the same. Like a rogue ex-U-boat patrolling the Atlantic coast, its fanatical crew ready to slaughter for a self-proclaimed dream of France ... L'Alouette had to be stopped - or eliminated. Which is how the prospect for peace in post war Europe came to rest in one man's hands. The man they called the Butcher of Perak ... 'A compulsively readable storyteller' - Sunday Express 'A thriller writer in a class of his own' - Financial Times - from the back cover -
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by Harry Patterson