The Midnight Bell (Sean Dillon Book 22)
<b>From the <b>“the dean of intrigue novelists†(<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i>)</b> comes a <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling novel of terrorism and revenge featuring IRA-hitman-turned-intelligence-operative Sean Dillon...</b><br /><br />“<i>The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it.â€</i>—Irish proverb<br /><br />In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the “Prime Minister's private army,†fresh from defeating a deadly al-Qaeda operation, receive a warning: You may think you have weakened us, but you have only made us stronger. In Washington, D.C., a special projects director with the CIA, frustrated at not getting permission from the President for his daring anti-terrorism plan, decides to put it in motion anyway. He knows he's right—the nation will thank him later.<br /><br />Soon, the ripples from these events will meet and overlap, creating havoc in their wake. Desperate men will act, secrets will be revealed—and the midnight bell will toll.