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Jack Higgins unites the team of The President's Daughter to go after a most curious assassin--but one with the power to bring down nations.
For many years, Jack Higgins's "battalions of loyal fans" (People) have delighted in his "rip-roaring, satisfying stories" (AP), novels of honor and bravery and irresistible intrigue. "Readers get exactly what they hope for from Higgins," says Publishers Weekly, and never has that been truer than for his new thriller, The White House Connection.
New York: Late at night, the rain pouring down, a well-dressed woman in her sixties stands in a doorway, a gun in her purse, waiting for a Senator to come home.
Washington, D.C. : The phone rings on the desk of Blake Johnson, head of the White House department known as The Basement. The President wants him now.
London: The Prime Minister sits thinking of Sean Dillon, the one-time terrorist, now his most effective, if not exactly trusted, operative. It'll have to be Dillon, he thinks. There's no one else.
Someone is killing off the members of a splinter group known as the Sons of Erin, normally not a cause for much concern, but the consequences are much greater than anyone realizes. For in these actions lie the seeds of disaster: the fall of two governments, the derailing of the Irish peace process. Dillon and Johnson must stop this unknown assassin, the heads of state agree, quickly, quietly, before all hell breaks loose.
. . . But they may already be too late. For in the Manhattan night, the silver-haired woman smiles, adjusts her rain hat more snugly on her head, and steps out into the street. Four down, she thinks.
Three to go.
- Sales Rank: #1186628 in Books
- Brand: G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Published on: 1999-05-10
- Released on: 1999-05-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.32" h x 1.32" w x 6.36" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 323 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
The Irish peace process is at risk because of the actions of a heartbroken mother in Higgins's 29th thriller. American-born and married to a British lord, 60-ish Lady Helen Lang, the "nicest person you'll ever meet," has taken it upon herself to avenge the brutal death of her son, Peter, at the hands of the Sons of Erin, a fringe Irish-nationalist group led by a psychotic Vietnam vet and with operatives in Dublin, London and the U.S. Other members include gangster Tim Pat Ryan, IRA terrorist Jack Barry, U.S. Senator Michael Cohan and a mysterious member known only as the Connection, who is revealed to be a mole in the White House. With nothing more than an old government file, a modified computer and a .25 revolver, Lady Helen makes short work of most of these villains, managing at one point to knock off three of them in four paragraphs. Naturally, this wholesale violence attracts the attention of Higgins regulars Brigadier Charles Ferguson and Sean Dillon, who try to protect Senator Cohan during his upcoming visit to London. It's not giving away any surprises to reveal that eventually the bad guys get theirs, but there are precious few surprises here, and a bloodless, cartoonish quality to everything from the dialogue to the killings. Higgins's attempt at characterizations are unpersuasive at bestAto prove that she's really a decent sort, Lady Helen passes up a chance to kill Senator Cohan in favor of shooting a couple of muggersAand as usual, Sean Dillon's prowess as a gunman includes the ability to outshoot men who have already drawn a gun on him. As for the style, everything is fast, flat and featureless, like driving a car on cruise control in Kansas. Higgins's fans may be pleased, but other readers will probably want a more exciting ride. BOMC main selection.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Jack Higgins is the best-known pseudonym of Harry Patterson, who has written over 60 novelsAa dozen of them best sellersAthat have been translated into numerous languages. Several of his thrillers, most recently The President's Daughter (LJ 5/1/97), have involved the characters who appear here. Sean Dillon, a former IRA gunman, now works for the British prime minister; Blake Johnson heads a secret office for the U.S. president. Both have their various talents severely tested while trying to stop a vengeful 66-year-old woman who is assassinating members of the Sons of Erin, including a senator, thereby threatening both governments. A mole in the White House frustrates Dillon's and Blake's efforts, but readers may be more frustrated by the shallow characterization and lifeless dialog. Nevertheless, the legions of Higgins fans will surely devour this as they have so many others, and libraries should be prepared.
-ARoland C. Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
When it comes to thrillers, Jack Higgins wrote the book. In fact, he wrote lots of them, and this is one of the best. The British and American superoperatives featured in The President's Daughter (1997) are now on the trail of whoever is executing American members of a rogue group called the Sons of Erin. The same shooter has also nailed a pair of would-be rapists. By the time they connect what at first appear to be unrelated killings, a leading London gangster, also in the group, has been taken out. Now all that remain of the Sons of Erin are Irish terrorist Jack Barry and a highly placed White House insider known only as the Connection. Although they realize the executioner is the very proper Lady Helen Lang, Boston-born widow of an English nobleman and mother of a tortured and murdered young officer, proving it is another matter. A very entertaining read. Budd Arthur
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Is it time for Higgins to hang it up?
By A Customer
I have been reading Higgins off and on since "The Eagle Has Landed" was new, but not recently. I was stunned by this poor effort by a one time very good (but not great) writer. I'm even more surprised by how he was able to slip this one past so many of his obvious fans.
First, I need to dispell one myth here. This is not a fast read as some seem to believe. It is an incredibly short book. The hard cover version came in at just over 300 pages but is virtually double spaced. However, quantity would not matter if there was something of substance here. Unfortunately, the plot has more holes in it than swiss cheese.
Police work is largely a matter of tracking down leads and eliminating suspects. Thanks to computers, cross checking crimes and people's movements is not as problematic as it once was. Early in the story, it is discovered that someone is using an unusual calibar pistol to commit murders on both sides of the Atlantic. The authorities quickly (and correctly) guess that the killer must be using a private plane to get her gun in and out of the US and Britain. Yet they fail to do two things that would seem to be basic. They do not search their computers for other murders with the same, rare gun, and more significantly, they never check the flight plans of private aircraft to provide leads to the killer's identity. (Of course, if they had, this very short book would have been even shorter.)
The killer is identified in the first pages of the book. She is an elderly woman on a mission. She eventually provides a clue to her identity to her primary, intended victim who is the real villian of the book. He should have been able to snap his fingers and either know who she is or find out quickly. Instead, he spends page after page whining about who it could be. At the same time, the authorities are on to him, but he keeps slipping out of their traps, an apparent device to provide another few pages to this dismal excuse for a novel.
Higgins seems to be out of ideas. He has been pushing the same characters at us for decades. It might be time for him to consider resting on his laurels and living the good life.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Great work from a master
By A Customer
In 1996, American expatriate Lady Helen Lang and her beloved spouse Roger learn that the IRA killed their son Peter in a car bombing. One year later, a broken Roger also dies. Three years later, a dying Tony Emsworth mysteriously asks Helen to see him. Helen learns the truth behind the death of her son. An IRA splinter group (The Sons of Erin) and the Connection (an unknown person with ties to the White House) insured that Jack Barry and associates had insider information to torture and murder Peter.
The elderly Helen knows she too is dying. She decides to enact vengeance on the five members of The Sons of Erin, Barry, and the Connection. She begins her methodical killing of the seven individuals who destroyed her family. Though she gains much empathy from the American and British governments, they fear she may wreck the Irish peace process. Even though the espionage groups admire the assassin, they know they must stop the killer before the peace process becomes a victim too.
Jack Higgins is a name synonymous with the best action-packed stories. His latest tale, THE WHITE HOUSE CONNECTION, is a superb sequel to his wonderful novel, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER. The story line, woven around the Irish quest for peace, is cleverly designed and keeps readers' attention from first page to the exciting climax. The return cast from the first book remains interesting and hopefully will co-star in another tale. However, this novel clearly belongs to Helen of Boston, whose actions leave two governments teetering and the espionage crowd wondering if that's the face that burned the Sons of Erin?
Harriet Klausner
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Quick Read but Higgins Has Done Better
By P. Connors
In The White House Connection, Jack Higgins, the prolific thriller writer has again reprised former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon, Brigadier Charles Ferguson,Hannah Bernstein and Blake Johnson in a fast paced story where the combined talents of British and American intelligence are used to thwart Irish terrorism.
In this continuation of the Sean Dillon saga, Higgins introduces an unlikely opponent for the combined US/UK intell team as they try to determine who is killing off the Sons of Erin and why. That killer, a woman, is as unlikely as any protagonist Higgins has ever used. Without revealing the person's identity (although the author does so early on), suffice it to say that the concept is improbable and unlikely. It seemed as if Higgins was really reaching for something with this book and the reader needs to suspend disbelief more than is usual for novels of this type.
In the process of leading the reader through the story, Higgins does his usual good job of providing history lessons right where they are needed to give readers the needed background to explain or amplify why he has written a character or scene a certain way. His intertwining of certain historical facts, especially those on Irish rebel history immediately explain why a Protestant Irish American would be a member of the IRA when everyone knows that the enmity between Catholics and Protestants in Ulster is legendary. When Higgins does this, he is at his best.
Another noticeable and at times very annoying feature of this book is that the dialogue Higgins gives the American characters is more British than American. In some cases it is more Irish than American. It almost seems as if Higgins has no knowledge whatever of American idiom and doesn't know how to write using our speech patterns. If you are a fan and doubt this style problem, go back and look closely for it. EVERYONE sounds British. Sean Dillon, the former IRA killer is also inconsistent in his speech patterns as well. Higgins' use of Irish idiom is overdone and also becomes annoying, mostly because it's so unnecessary.
Despite my minor annoyances and critiques here, overall, this is a very enjoyable read. The usual Higgins mastery of scene, atmosphere, characterization, tension and pacing all here. If the reader is familiar with the British cast of characters, this book reads quickly and well because we are all glad to be reunited with Sean Dillon and his boss, Brigadier Charles Ferguson.
Higgins also provides some really despicable opposition to the intelligence folks. One, named Jack Barry is so hoorible that most readers will probably be praying for his death. This is the kind of book one can easily read over a weekend or on the beach. Despite some minor and easily forgivable irritants, THE WHITE HOUSE CONNECTION is another successful and fast ride through the creative mind of Jack Higgins. If he had avoided overuse of British speech patterns and a more than usually unbelievable main character, I would have awarded this book 5 stars; so with these things in mind, I gave it 4 stars.
Fans of Higgins shouldn't miss this one and I recommend to all serious readers of espionage and police procedural novels.
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