Dark Side of the Street
Published on 31. January 2013
160 pages
978-0-00-729051-2 (ISBN)
Description
Special agent Paul Chavasse is familiar with undercover missions that no one else will undertake - but none have entailed being sent to prison for seven years.
With commando-like precision, an international escape ring is breaking Britain's top criminals out of jail. Saboteurs, murderers, traitors, spies - all vanishing without a clue. Special Branch has discovered that Harry Youngblood will be next, but they are helpless to stop it.
What they need is an agent with the cunning mind of a criminal and the cold heart of a killer. And the willingness to go to prison.
Enter Paul Chavasse, who pulls off a spectacular robbery and gets seven years as Youngblood's cellmate. And when Youngblood is sprung, Chavasse goes too, following a bizarre trail that takes him across the country and out into the English Channel for a violent showdown.
With commando-like precision, an international escape ring is breaking Britain's top criminals out of jail. Saboteurs, murderers, traitors, spies - all vanishing without a clue. Special Branch has discovered that Harry Youngblood will be next, but they are helpless to stop it.
What they need is an agent with the cunning mind of a criminal and the cold heart of a killer. And the willingness to go to prison.
Enter Paul Chavasse, who pulls off a spectacular robbery and gets seven years as Youngblood's cellmate. And when Youngblood is sprung, Chavasse goes too, following a bizarre trail that takes him across the country and out into the English Channel for a violent showdown.
Reviews / Votes
'Open a Jack Higgins novel and you'll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers ... first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.'Sunday Express
'Higgins is a master of his craft.'
Daily Telegraph
'A thriller writer in a class of his own.'
Financial Times
'The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.'
Daily Mail
'100 per cent proof adventure'
New York Times
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
3,64 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-729051-2 (9780007290512)
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Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.
