By Jack Higgins
“Death is the hour of darkness runner.” – Arab proverb
Higgins’ final novel, Edge of Danger, was once “hugely entertaining,” stated the Los Angeles Times. “The writer describes it as a strong mystery, and it’s no lie.” At its finish, the murderous Arab/English Rashid kin lay decimated – yet no longer extinct. And which can were Sean Dillon’s deadly error.
Her brothers killed one after the other, Kate Rashid swears vengeance on all who've harmed her kinfolk. by no means brain that they attempted to assassinate the President of the us, that villainy ran of their veins. They have been her brothers, and her enemies could pay. British agent Sean Dillon…White residence operative Blake Johnson…the President himself…their time used to be coming, and simply she knew how – or when.
Brilliantly suspenseful, Midnight Runner is extra evidence that, within the phrases of the linked Press, “when it involves mystery writers, one identify stands good above the group – Jack Higgins.”
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All right,” Roper shrugged. “Some days one and one make 3. anything you wish? ” “That twelve o’clock post-mortem, once you could. ” “Fair adequate. do you need me to determine what the police are as much as? ” “Hannah’s engaged on that, however it can’t harm to determine what you will discover, too. I’ve obtained to get going. allow me recognize in case you happen something. ” Dillon left and Roper minimize into Scotland Yard’s valuable files place of work. He tested what used to be there and frowned. there has been an ancillary hyperlink to the case of 1 Alan supply, Canal road, Wapping, believed drowned and believed to be the individual that had brought Helen Quinn to the clinic. Roper sat again, nonetheless frowning back. The identify, Alan furnish, used to be primary, after which he remembered the place he’d noticeable it. He went again to the Act of sophistication war site, and there he used to be: Oxford, a second-year pupil at St. Hugh’s university additionally, studying physics. one other twist of fate he didn’t think in. He picked up the telephone to Ferguson. At Cavendish position, Dillon regarded out of the French window within the drawing room, then grew to become. Ferguson used to be sitting by means of the fireplace. “So, we not just recognize why she went to London, we all know that this supply introduced her to the health center, did a runner, and ended up lifeless via drowning. ” “And I’ve acquired extra. ” Hannah Bernstein bustled in from open air. “Both Quinn and supply went to London on a distinct bus employed via a professor named Henry Percy, and bet who got here alongside for the journey? ” “Who? ” Ferguson stated mildly. “Would you suspect, Rupert Dauncey? ” Dillon laughed harshly and Ferguson acknowledged, “What on the earth used to be he doing there? ” “Percy gave Scotland backyard what could often be termed a whole and frank assertion. Rashid money ACW, as we all know, and Dauncey got here all the way down to attempt to name off their participation within the rally. stated it was once too harmful. either he and Percy even made speeches to the busload of scholars declaring the risks of the rally. ” “Did Dauncey prove going? ” “With Percy, yet they left while it obtained tough. Percy went again to the bus and Dauncey stated he used to be going domestic. ” “Very handy, Dauncey simply exhibiting up like that,” acknowledged Dillon. “Making noble speeches. ” “And get this,” acknowledged Bernstein. “Percy truly brought Dauncey to Helen Quinn. acknowledged he desired to meet a fellow American. Percy says he heard him urging her to not visit the rally yet that her boyfriend, this Alan provide, mocked him in entrance of every body. They ended up going to the rally, yet then humans overlooked one another, and that was once the final Percy observed of both of them. ” “Hmm,” Ferguson stated. “So at the face of it, they went to Canal road after the insurrection, most likely for intercourse, had a couple of beverages, a few medications, and he or she had an opposed response. furnish takes her to the sanatorium, she dies at the rapid, and he runs for it, doesn’t recognize which method to turn…and commits suicide. ” “Which can be believable…if it weren’t for the rattling odor of the Rashids. ” the telephone rang. Hannah spoke back it and located Roper at the different finish. “I’m faxing the post-mortem via now. They’re doing supply subsequent.