The Dark Side of the Street

By Jack Higgins

For Harry Youngblood, escaping from prison is going to be easy.

But escaping his past could cost him his life…

Twenty years inside for one third of a million pounds: that was the price Harry Youngblood was paying.

Drummond is Youngblood’s cellmate. He is also intelligence agent Paul Chavasse, working undercover. And when Youngblood is broken out, Chavasse tags along for the ride.

His objective is to break the crime ring headed by the Baron, to whom Youngblood is indebted. But Chavasse will have to get past a psychopathic henchman named Vaughan if he is to succeed…

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Release date: Jan 31, 2013
• ISBN: 9780007290512

Jack Higgins

Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.

Reviews for The Dark Side of the Street

[bridgey_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dark Side of the Street - Jack Higgins *****Paul Chavasse is in his 5th outing as the super spy.Criminals are being busted out of jail with external help from an unknown source called the Baron. In return they give up the secret of where they hid the unlocated cash from the crimes that landed them in prison. However, things are going wrong.......Meanwhile political prisoners are also being sprung and appearing on the other side of the world. The secret service need a man to intercept the plan, and no other than Chavasse is selected.It is decided that he must be placed in a cell with a villain call Youngblood, he robbed a train along with 2 others that have already escaped and not found. In order to get in there Paul must assume a new identity as Paul Drummond and commit an actual crime..... There is plenty of action as you would expect from a Higgins book, and plenty of twists.5 Stars!!!