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Title: Dillon slows up
Review: WithoutMercy had the potential for being a great sequel. It did approach this end but quickly shifted gears away from being the thriller I come to expect from Jack Higgins. I was disappoointed with the very limited roles of Jake Cazlet and Blake Johnson, yet pleased to see that General Ferguson"promoted" Billy Salter into the Service. The IRA antagonists to Dillon never reached the crescendo they did in Dark Justice and certainly Dillon and Blake Johnson rarely interacted thus leaving the reader wondering about why Blake was even involved in this story. Higgins has to keep Dillon on the edge and use Blake and Billy as foils the way he so ably used Hannah Bernstein.Higgins is still a master of the genre but I feel he wrote this one "Without Mercy" for his loyal fans and readers.
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