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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 .
The novel features Higgins' regular Sean Dillon, along with both American and British government operatives in a volatile Kosovo, made more so when one puts a bullet through the head of the ring leader of a group of Russian soldiers. While Dillon appears at various points in the story the lead character is an ex-army intelligence officer, Major ...
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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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Each book reads like a crime thriller and doesn’t touch much on previous Reacher stories, meaning the series can be read in any order. Serious Jack Reacher fans may have their own reading order ...
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.