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4. Henry Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen name Jack Higgins, was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies [ 1] and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title.
ISBN 0-671-01934-1 (paperback edition) OCLC. 1993343. Dewey Decimal. 823/.9/14. LC Class. PZ4.H6367 Eag PR6058.I343. The Eagle Has Landed is a book by British writer Jack Higgins, set during World War II and first published in 1975. [1] It was quickly adapted into a British film of the same name, released in 1976.
As in several of the novels by Higgins, the plot is surrounded with a prologue and epilogue. In 1975, the author, Higgins, meets an American historian in London, who gives him a photocopy of an illegally obtained secret dossier, with a one hundred-year hold, from the Public Record Office. The document purports to tell the story of Steiner's rescue.
Plot. A plot to assassinate British Foreign Secretary, Lord Carrington, who is secretly visiting the President of France in an isolated country location, is called off at the last moment. Jack Corder, a double agent in the organisation of master terrorist, Frank Barry, is killed by Barry, who escapes. Brigadier Ferguson, head of ‘Group Four ...
Plot summary. Amateur diver Henry Baker goes diving in the Caribbean, where he finds the wreck of a German U-boat. Inside he finds a briefcase which he takes back home with him. On his way home he meets his friend, diver Bob Carney, and lies to him about where he's been. When he opens the briefcase he finds a list of documents in German.
Plot summary. In May 1944 Brigadier general Dougal Munro of the SOE sends Genevieve Trevaunce, a beautiful British operative, to France with the task of infiltrating General Erwin Rommel 's briefing on the defense of the Atlantic Wall. The mission is compromised and it is up to OSS Major Craig Osbourne, a highly trained assassin and Special ...
W. Wrath of the Lion. Categories: British novels by writer. War novels. Thriller novels by writer.
Day of Reckoning. (novel) First edition (publ. HarperCollins) Day Of Reckoning is a mafia -themed novel by Jack Higgins, first published in 2000. It is one of a series of books featuring the ex- IRA philosopher/killer Sean Dillon as the antihero. [1] It debuted at No. 6 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list for fiction.
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