Bloody Passage

Jack Higgins

Casa editrice: Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

Sinossi

An intelligence officer fights to save his sister from the mob in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.   Oliver Grant is an American intelligence officer, a hero of the Vietnam War. But when the Mafia kidnaps his sister, his life is turned upside down and he agrees to complete a dangerous assignment for the powerful mob boss Dimitri Stavrou in order to gain her freedom: Grant must save Stavrou’s son from a secret cliff-top prison in Libya.   To accomplish this mission, he must scale the rocky crag and somehow get Stavrou’s son out alive. His sister’s life—and his own—hang in the balance in a nerve-racking tale of action and suspense from the author Tom Clancy called “the master,” with more than a quarter of a billion copies of his thrillers sold around the world.

Disponibile da: 22/06/2010.

Lunghezza di stampa: 168 pagine.

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