On Dangerous Ground

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On Dangerous Ground (1993)

by Jack Higgins

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Special agent Sean Dillon seems genetically engineered for the 1990s. As a former IRA operative, he’s terrorist chic, but since he’s killed no women or children, he’s also very PC. In any case, Dillon returns from Higgins’ Thunder Point and Eye of the Storm (1992) to help British intelligence locate the Chungking Covenant, a 1944 document in which Winston Churchill agreed to assist Mao Tse-tung against the Japanese for Mao’s promise to extend Britain’s lease of Hong Kong for another 100 years, to 2097, should his revolution succeed. For some reason, the Mafia–and not the all-powerful Chinese triads?–are most interested in exposing the document and thus sustaining their lucrative Asian drug trade another century. However, Britain fears that revealing the covenant would strain already-delicate relations among the UK, China, and the U.S.