The Judas Gate (Sean Dillon)
by By Higgins, Jack
Category: Fiction , Thrillers , General

"With fresh plots, interesting characters, and vibrant settings, Jack Higgins has firmly cemented his reputation as one of the world's most successful thriller writers."---The Strand MagazineTreachery has a price, in the mesmerizing new thriller from the New York Times---bestselling writer.With his latest novels, Jack Higgins has shown himself "on top of his game" (Publishers Weekly), his books infused with "a timely edginess [that] pulls you along like the surprisingly strong current of the Thames River" (Associated Press). The Judas Gate is just as timely---and just as surprising.A disturbing audiotape has made its way to General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, and from him to the President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan, but not all of them---shockingly, some of them are British, and one in particular, 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 Ferguson immediately puts Sean Dillon in charge of hunting the traitor down. But Dillon has his own way of doing things and, he will eventually discover, so does his quarry. Not only will Dillon be going to war---the war will be coming to him.Filled with suspense, driven by characters of complexity and passion, The Judas Gate is an unforgettable novel by the man "who has produced some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years" (The San Diego Union-Tribune).Since The Eagle has Landed---one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time---every novel JACK HIGGINS has written, including his most recent works, The Wolf at the Door and A Darker Place, has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcovery and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point.Higgins, who lived in Belfast until he was twelve, had several close calls with bombs and gunfire at an early age. After leaving school at fifteen, he served three years with the Royal Horse Guards in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Subsequently, he was a circus roustabout, a factory worker, a truck driver, and a laborer, before entering college at age twenty-seven. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University.A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands.