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Jack Higgins

The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)

4.18 avg rating — 57,899 ratings — published 1975 — 155 editions

Eye of the Storm (Sean Dillon, #1)

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16,276 ratings — published 1992 — 66 editions

Night of the Fox (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter #1)

4.01 avg rating — 7,510 ratings — published 1986 — 29 editions

Thunder Point (Sean Dillon #2)

4.01 avg rating — 5,000 ratings — published 1993 — 71 editions

On Dangerous Ground (Sean Dillon #3)

3.98 avg rating — 4,387 ratings — published 1994 — 81 editions

The President's Daughter (Sean Dillon #6)

3.94 avg rating — 4,304 ratings — published 1997 — 64 editions

The Eagle Has Flown (Liam Devlin, #4)

3.98 avg rating — 4,069 ratings — published 1991 — 73 editions

Cold Harbour (Dougal Munro and Jack Carter, #2)

3.96 avg rating — 4,041 ratings — published 1990 — 66 editions

The Judas Gate (Sean Dil

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Jack Higgins

British novelist (1929–2022)

For other people named Jack Higgins, see Jack Higgins (disambiguation).

Henry Patterson (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his pen nameJack 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.^[2]

Some of his other notable books are A Prayer for the Dying (1973), The Eagle Has Flown (1991), Thunder Point (1993), Angel of Death (1995), Flight of Eagles (1998), and Day of Reckoning (2000).^[1] His 85 novels in total have sold more than 250 million copies and have been translated into 55 languages.^[3]

Early life

Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson^[4] on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne to an English father and a Northern Irish mother.^[1] When his father abandoned them soon afterward, his mother returned with him to her home town of Belfast, Northern

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Here is all the information on Jack Higgins himself.

Jack Higgins is, like James Graham, Martin Fallon and Hugh Marlowe, a round and pseudonym for his real name: Harry Patterson. Jack Higgins is nowadays a multi-millionaire who lives on Jersey (one of the Channel Islands) with his wife.

Jack Higgins was born July 27th 1929 and raised in Belfast in a family with a political background and frequently experienced the worst aspect of the troubles during his youth. He later moved to Leeds, left school with no qualification at an early age and had a succession of jobs, including two years as an NCO in the Royal House of Guards serving on the East German border during the Cold War.

He was then accepted as an external student at London University while working as a circus tent-hand, a tram conductor and most things in between, and a degree in sociology took him into teaching before he became a full-time author. He was already a writer of adventure stories when he, in his forties, wrote "The eagle has landed" but this highly original war novel turned him into an international be