Ray Hogan

A death in Brooklyn sends reverberations around the world in Jack Higgins's thrilling new adventure. Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox -- but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department known as The Basement, and with the President's permission, the former FBI agent is about to take revenge. Wherever the money trail leads -- New York, England, Ireland, the Middle East -- Johnson and his Irish colleague, Sean Dillon, plan to hit Fox where it hurts the most, by cutting his illegal businesses to shreds, until Fox stands defenseless before his enemies. But Fox did not become powerful by letting his enemies get that close. If Johnson and Dillon want to take him on, they will have to face his own brand of revenge. And it is a revenge every bit as deadly as their own.

Included in this collection of novellas is 'Legend of a Badman' which tells of the colourful and fascinating character of Clay Allison. Was Allison a western Robin Hood, defending the poor and the weak? Or was he a vicious killer who gunned down more than twenty men?

Sascha Lasserson came to London from Russia in 1914 and stayed on to become one of the greatest piano teachers in the country. This book, an affectionate composite portrait of him by his pupils, describes him not only as a teacher but also as man and artist. It also provides fascinating portraits of some of his great friends and contemporaries at the St Petersburg Conservatoire.