Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Flown; Death Run; Rough Justice
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Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Flown; Death Run; Rough Justice. After his military service, Patterson held various jobs, including a circus roustabout, factory worker, and truck driver, before pursuing higher education at age 27. Jack Higgins, Liam Devlin Book 4: The Eagle Has Flown. Jack Higgins, Liam Devlin Book 4: The Eagle Has Flown Jack Higgins , whose real name was Henry Patterson , was a prolific British author of best-selling thrillers and espionage novels. The Eagle Has Flown is the fourth and final book in his Liam Devlin series , serving as a direct sequel to his most famous novel, The Eagle Has Landed . Jack Higgins Biography Born Henry Patterson in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1929, he grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He left school at fifteen and served for two years in the British Army with the Royal Horse Guards, stationed along the East German border, where he was considered an expert marksman. After his military service, Patterson held various jobs, including a circus roustabout, factory worker, and truck driver, before pursuing higher education at age 27. He earned degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the London School of Economics and went on to become a teacher and a lecturer in liberal studies and criminology at various colleges. He began writing novels in 1959, using several pseudonyms before settling on Jack Higgins in the late 1960s. His breakthrough came with the publication of The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, which became an international blockbuster, selling over 50 million copies and being adapted into a successful film. All his subsequent novels were bestsellers, and in total, his 85 novels have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Higgins died at his home on the Channel Island of Jersey on April 9, 2022, at the age of 92. The Eagle Has Flown Summary The Eagle Has Flown was published in 1991 and continues the storyline of the German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. The novel takes place in 1943, shortly after the events of the first book. Plot: The Premise : All evidence of the failed "Operation Eagle" has been buried, but German intelligence knows that SS Colonel Kurt Steiner, the mission leader, has survived and is being held as a prisoner of war in the Tower of London. The Mission : For his own complex reasons, Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler demands Steiner's return. Liam Devlin's Role : SS General Walter Schellenberg is put in charge of the rescue mission and recruits the charismatic IRA gunman and assassin Liam Devlin , who is hiding out in Lisbon bars and playing the piano. Devlin is persuaded to return to Britain in an attempt to free Steiner and bring him back to Berlin. The book, described by Goodreads reviewers as a "thoroughly riveting read," follows Devlin and Schellenberg as they race across Europe to London, uncovering the "shattering true objective" of their perilous mission . Jack Higgins with Justin Richards, Rich and Jade Book 2: Death Run Jack Higgins (Henry Patterson, 1929–2022) was a world-renowned thriller author, who co-wrote the "Rich and Jade " young adult series with Justin Richards, the second book of which is Death Run . Authors' Biographies Jack Higgins (Henry Patterson) : A highly successful British author of popular thrillers and espionage novels, known for bestsellers like The Eagle Has Landed . His books have sold over 250 million copies. He was a soldier and a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. He passed away in 2022, having concluded his main series in 2017. Justin Richards : An author of science-fiction and fantasy novels, including several Doctor Who tie-in books. He is also known for his own series like The Invisible Detective and Time Runners. He has worked as the Creative Director for the BBC's range of Doctor Who books and co-authored the Rich and Jade series with Higgins. He lives in Warwick, England. Rich and Jade Book 2: Death Run Overview Death Run is the second action-adventure novel in the "Rich and Jade" (also known as "The Chance Twins") series, following the first book, Sure Fire . Plot Summary : The teenage twins, Rich and Jade Chance, are on vacation with their father, master spy John Chance. Their father's real mission is to monitor a Swiss banker planning to defect from a ruthless criminal known as "the Tiger". When the banker is captured and taken to a remote Scottish castle along with Rich, it falls to Jade and her father to orchestrate a daring rescue. The story features action in Venice and a private school in England, as the criminals try to use the children as leverage. Publication Date : The book was published in hardcover in the US around 2008 by Putnam Publishing Group, and earlier in the UK. One edition has a publication date of October 1, 2007. Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon Book 15: Rough Justice Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque - or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates, including Britain's Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia. Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is done - from Kosovo to London to Beirut to Ireland to Moscow - there will be plenty of both.
