Edge of Danger. Jack Higgins

      

      Edge of Danger

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2001

      Copyright © Harry Patterson 2001

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Cover photograph © Nick Meers/Images Colour Library

      Harry Patterson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008124908

      Ebook Edition © August 2015 ISBN: 9780008159115

      Version: 2015-07-30

      To Tess, who thinks it’s about time…

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       IN THE BEGINNING

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       LONDON COUNTY DOWN, NORTHERN IRELAND

       Chapter 3

       MANHATTAN LONDON WEST SUSSEX WHITE HOUSE

       Chapter 4

      

       NANTUCKET

      

       Chapter 5

      

       LONDON

      

       Chapter 6

      

       Chapter 7

      

       HAZAR

      

       Chapter 8

      

       Chapter 9

      

       Chapter 10

      

       Chapter 11

      

       LONDON THE THAMES

      

       Chapter 12

      

       Chapter 13

      

       DAUNCEY PLACE

      

       Chapter 14

      

       Chapter 15

      

       EPILOGUE LONDON

      

       About the Author

      

       ALSO BY JACK HIGGINS

      

       Further Reading

      

       About the Publisher

IN THE BEGINNING

       1

      Paul Rashid was one of the richest Englishmen in the world. He was also half Arab, and few people could tell you which influence most ruled his heart.

      Paul’s father had been the leader of the Rashid Bedouin in the province of Hazar, in the Persian Gulf, and a soldier by both birth and tradition. Sent as a young man to the Royal Military