A Devil Is Waiting - Jack Higgins [0]
ALSO BY JACK HIGGINS
The Judas Gate
The Wolf at the Door
A Darker Place
Rough Justice
The Killing Ground
Without Mercy
Dark Justice
Bad Company
Midnight Runner
Keys of Hell
Edge of Danger
Day of Reckoning
Pay the Devil
The White House Connection
Flight of Eagles
The President’s Daughter
Year of the Tiger
Drink with the Devil
Angel of Death
Sheba
On Dangerous Ground
Thunder Point
Eye of the Storm
The Eagle Has Flown
Cold Harbor
Memories of a Dance-Hall Romeo
A Season in Hell
Night of the Fox
Confessional
Exocet
Touch the Devil
Luciano’s Luck
Solo
Day of Judgment
Storm Warning
The Last Place God Made
A Prayer for the Dying
The Eagle Has Landed
The Run to Morning
Dillinger
To Catch a King
The Valhalla Exchange
JACK HIGGINS
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Higgins, Jack, date.
A devil is waiting / Jack Higgins.
p. cm.
EISBN: 9781101554050
1. United States. President—Fiction. 2. Americans—England—Fiction.
3. Terrorism—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. 1. Title.
PR6058.I343D48 2012 2011039496
823.914—dc23
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Where there is a sin
A devil is waiting
—IRISH PROVERB
For Tessa-Gaye Coleman
Night & Day,
You Are the One
Table of Contents
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Ten
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Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Epilogue
ONE
It was late afternoon on Garrison Street, Brooklyn, as Daniel Holley sat at the wheel of an old Ford delivery truck, waiting for Dillon. There were parked vehicles, but little evidence of people.
Rain drove in across the East River, clouding his view of the coastal ships tied up to the pier that stretched ahead. A policeman emerged from an alley a few yards away, his uniform coat running with water, cap pulled down over his eyes. He banged on the truck with his nightstick.
Holley wound down the window. “Can I help you, Officer?”
“I should imagine you could, you daft bastard,