Dark Side of the Street (Paul Chavasse series, Book 5)
By (Author) Jack Higgins
Book 5
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
28th October 2025
3rd July 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller: organised crime
Espionage and spy thriller
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
823.914
Paperback
160
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
120g
With commando-like precision, an international escape ring is breaking Britains top criminals out of jail. Saboteurs, murderers, traitors, spies all vanishing without a clue. Special Branch has discovered that Harry Youngblood will be next, but they are helpless to stop it.
What they need is an agent with the cunning mind of a criminal and the cold heart of a killer. And the willingness to go to prison.
Enter Paul Chavasse, who pulls off a spectacular robbery and gets seven years as Youngbloods cellmate. And when Youngblood is sprung, Chavasse goes too, following a bizarre trail that takes him across the country and out into the English Channel for a violent showdown.
Open a Jack Higgins novel and youll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.
Sunday Express
Higgins is a master of his craft.
Daily Telegraph
A thriller writer in a class of his own.
Financial Times
The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.
Daily Mail
100 per cent proof adventure
New York Times
Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.