Edge of Danger (Sean Dillon #9)

Edge of Danger by Jack Higgins is the ninth book featuring Sean Dillon - an ex-IRA enforcer who now works for British Intelligence. Dillon's skills outside of the law come in handy in this volume of the series.

An international play for control over oil fields in Oman triggers a mad man to begin a string of assassinations in the name of protecting his family.

The Rashid family is half British and half Bedu. One the one side of the family the can trace their roots in England back to before King James I. The other side from the Bedouin of Oman. And while both sides of the heritage play a part in the man Paul Rashid has become, the deciding factor may be madness.

After his mother is killed in an apparent auto accident, Paul plots his revenge against the Russians and Americans who are working on an oil deal in his father's native land. He hires an IRA assassin to attempt to kill the United States President. If that fails he has other targets lined up as back up.

Edge of Danger features Dillon's skills as well as pulling Billy Salter farther into the mix. Higgins continues to hold his fans' attention with the series. Though this is not my favorite book out of the series, it was still a book I could not put down.

Higgins, Jack. (2001). Edge of Danger. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.