From Publishers Weekly

The final novel in Ross’s Stewart Sisters romantic suspense trilogy fails to fulfill the series’ original promise, though it’s considerably stronger than the lackluster second installment, Out of the Blue. Immediately after Washington political journalist Laurel Stewart is wrongly fired for stealing secrets from the U.S. vice-president, her roommate, Chloe Hollister, goes missing. Concerned, Laurel visits the South Carolina port town where Chloe was last seen. After reporting the disappearance to detective Joe Gannon, she learns that a woman of similar description has died in a suspicious fall from a hotel balcony. The woman turns out not to be Chloe, but Laurel has a sudden psychic episode, which all too conveniently gives Joe his first clues to the woman’s death. The two pair up to investigate further and, predictably, they forge a romantic bond in the process. Despite capable prose and pacing, the book lacks the warm family connections and rich (more…)

From Publishers Weekly

Higgins’s thrillers may evoke a strong sense of deja vu (same basic story, different time frame), but that doesn’t seem to diminish the impact of each new novel. Early in 1991, while the Gulf war is in full bloom, operatives of Saddam Hussein hire legendary terrorist Sean Dillon to take the war to the enemy. A master of disguise and subterfuge, Dillon began his career with the IRA, earning the enmity of Liam Devlin–the unforgettable antihero of The Eagle Has Landed , who makes a featured appearance here–and of Martin Brosnan, an American Special Forces hero and IRA member turned college professor. After Dillon’s attempt to assassinate former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to France fails, he decides to go after her successor, John Major, and his War Cabinet with a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street. Learning that British Intelligence is recruiting Brosnan to track him down, Dillon confronts his old enemy, a meeting that ends in (more…)