Jack Higgins

The White House Connection


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      The White House Connection

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph 1999

      Copyright © Harry Patterson 1999

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2015

      Photography and illustration © Nik Keevil

      Harry Patterson asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008124854

      Ebook Edition © May 2015 ISBN: 9780007384792

      Version: 2015-04-01

      To my mother-in-law, Sally Palmer. Thanks for the idea

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       PROLOGUE NEW YORK

       IN THE BEGINNING LONDON NEW YORK

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       LONDON WASHINGTON ULSTER

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

      

       Chapter 5

      

       WASHINGTON NANTUCKET NEW YORK

      

       Chapter 6

      

       LONDON

      

       Chapter 7

      

       Chapter 8

      

       Chapter 9

      

       Chapter 10

      

       NEW YORK WASHINGTON

      

       Chapter 11

      

       Chapter 12

      

       LONG ISLAND NORFOLK

      

       Chapter 13

      

       Chapter 14

      

       NORFOLK ULSTER

      

       Chapter 15

      

       EPILOGUE

      

       Chapter 16

      

       About the Author

      

       Also by Jack Higgins

      

       Further Reading

      

       About the Publisher

       PROLOGUE

       NEW YORK

      Manhattan, with an east wind driving rain mixed with a little sleet along Park Avenue, was as bleak and uninviting as most great cities after midnight, especially in March. There was little traffic – the occasional