Solo

Solo
Jack Higgins

The timeless Higgins classic, available in ebook format for the first time.In the depths of a cavernous of concert hall, a gifted psychopath plots and waits, his thoughts on nothing but music and murder. He kills for pleasure, constantly searching, and with a brand new target in his sights, his mind spirals once again into torture and violence.But this time, he has chosen the wrong victim; the teenage daughter of one of the most feared and respected SAS soldiers known; a man with more training and advanced killer instinct than even himself.Now, the hunt is on. As soldier stalks maestro for a brutal vengeance, one attempts to outsmart the other in a deadly game of cunning, skill, and bloody expertise, building to a nerve-shattering climax.

Jack Higgins

Solo

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Solo was first published in the UK by William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd in 1980 and later by Pan Books in 1981. This amazing novel has been out of print for some years, and in 2009, it seemed to the author and his publishers that it was a pity to leave such a good story languishing on his shelves. So we are delighted to be able to bring back Solo for the pleasure of the vast majority of us who never had a chance to read the earlier editions.

Dedication

For my daughter

Ruth Patterson,

Who thinks it’s about time.

Epigraph

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Francis Bacon

Contents

Cover (#ulink_b1a8b4fb-84e5-5cab-a327-77d50385bc50)

Title Page

Publisher’s Note

Dedication

Epigraph

Prologue

The Cretan turned in through the gate in the high,…

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Some forty sea miles south from Athens and less than…

2

The British Secret Intelligence Service, known more correctly as DI5,…

3

But in Belfast that day, extraordinary things had been happening…

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By evening Morgan had reached Leeds. He left the city…

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Baker stood in front of the fire, warming himself as…

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Katherine Riley was having lunch in her study at the…

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The Europa Hotel in Belfast stands in Great Victoria Street,…

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Harvey Jago inspected himself carefully in the bathroom mirror. In…

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Not that any of it mattered for at the very…

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It was raining heavily in the first grey light of…

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At Heathrow, it was just three-thirty as Katherine Riley hurried…

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For most of his seventy-two years George Ghika had been…

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Morgan was tramping over the mountain on his way home…

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It was almost six o’clock when Kim answered the ring…

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