| The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
4.18 avg rating — 57,907 ratings — published 1975 — 155 editions |
| Eye of the Storm (Sean Dillon, #1)
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| Night of the Fox (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter #1)
4.01 avg rating — 7,511 ratings — published 1986 — 29 editions |
| Thunder Point (Sean Dillon #2)
4.01 avg rating — 5,002 ratings — published 1993 — 71 editions |
| On Dangerous Ground (Sean Dillon #3)
3.98 avg rating — 4,388 ratings — published 1994 — 81 editions |
| The President's Daughter (Sean Dillon #6)
3.94 avg rating — 4,305 ratings — published 1997 — 64 editions |
| The Eagle Has Flown (Liam Devlin, #4)
3.98 avg rating — 4,072 ratings — published 1991 — 73 editions |
| Cold Harbour (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter, #2)
3.96 avg ra  • Jack Higgins obituaryUnder his own and several other names, including Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson had published 35 thrillers before, in his mid-40s, he hit the jackpot with The Eagle Has Landed (1975), an instant bestseller in the US, which is said to have sold more than 50m copies worldwide. Its success carried Higgins, who has died aged 92, into tax exile in Jersey, to a mansion overlooking St Aubin’s Bay, from where he was to write a popular thriller almost annually, his books guaranteed to find a place in every airport departure lounge in the world. With commercial popularity came the opprobrium of the literary critics: accusations of poor writing and the recycling of characters and plots from earlier books. The New York Times said that his bestseller Night of the Fox (1986) had “a plot which thickens to the point of congealing” and one critic described Thunder Point (1993) as “the finest book about drinking ever seen”, noting that references to drinking champagne outnumbe • Jack Higgins871 followers
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(Harry Patterson)
(1929 - 2022)
aka Martin Fallon, James Graham, Hugh Marlowe, Harry Patterson
Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, serving on the East German border during the Cold War. His subsequent employment included occupations as diverse as circus roustabout, truck driver, clerk and, after taking an honours degree in sociology and social psychology, teacher and university lecturer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have sold over 250 million copies and have been translated into fifty-five languages. Many have also been filmed, including The Violent Enemy, which was banned for political reasons bygd the utländsk Office; the great MGM classic The Wrath of God, Rita Hayworth's gods film; The Eagle Has Landed; A Prayer for the Dying, starring Bob Hoskins and M
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