Angel of Death. Jack Higgins

      

      Angel of Death

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      First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1995

      Copyright © Harry Patterson 1995

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Photography and illustration © Nik Keevil

      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: 9780008124823

      Ebook Edition © May 2015 ISBN: 9780007384693

      Version: 2015-04-01

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Epigraph

       BELFAST LONDON 1994

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       LONDON BELFAST DEVON 1972–1992

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

      

       Chapter 5

      

       BEIRUT 1994

      

       Chapter 6

      

       Chapter 7

      

       LONDON 1994

      

       Chapter 8

      

       Chapter 9

      

       WASHINGTON LONDON WASHINGTON 1994

      

       Chapter 10

      

       Chapter 11

      

       LONDON DEVON LONDON 1994

      

       Chapter 12

      

       Chapter 13

      

       Chapter 14

      

       KENT DRUMGOOLE ABBEY ARDMORE HOUSE LONDON 1994

      

       Chapter 15

      

       Chapter 16

      

       About the Author

      

       Also by Jack Higgins

      

       Further Reading

      

       About the Publisher

       Epigraph

      Between two groups of men that want to

      make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no

      remedy except force.… It seems to me that

      every society rests on the death of men.

      Oliver Wendell Holmes

BELFAST

       1

      A cold wind blew in from Belfast Lough, driving rain across the city. Sean