Toll for the Brave

Key title From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction. Jack Higgins is one of the most instantly recognisable names in thriller writing around the world -- after more than three decades at the top Recent novels such as Day of Reckoning, Edge of Danger, Midnight Runner and Bad Company have seen a significant resurgence in his sales. All have been instant top-ten bestsellers in both the UK and the USA His last paperback, Midnight Runner, was his fastest-selling for many years, spending more than a month in the Sunday Times top ten Following the success of the recent reissues of Pay the Devil, The Keys of Hell and A Fine Night for Dying, this classic backlist title is to be reissued straight into paperback, with a simultaneous library edition (PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This novel was first published under the same title by J.Long in hardback in 1971 under the name of Harry Patterson, and by Arrow in paperback in 1977 under the name Jack Higgins) Competition: Frederick Forsyth, Robert Ludlum, Clive Cussler

From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.

From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.

Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked.

Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he?

Maybe it would all have been easier to take if he really had been mad