LONDON — Jack Higgins, the best-selling British author who wrote “The Eagle Has Landed” and other espionage novels, has died, his publisher said.
It is with great sadness that HarperCollins shares the news that Henry Patterson, most commonly known to the general public by the pseudonym Jack Higgins, has died at the age of ninety-two, at home in Jersey and surrounded by his family.
Higgins, who was born Henry Patterson on July 27, 1929, in Newcastle, served in the military before studying sociology at the London School of Economics, according to The Associated Press.
His 1975 novel, “The Eagle Has Landed,” about a Nazi plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill during World War II, sold more than 50 million copies, the BBC reported.
“I replied that I wasn’t really sure, before adding as a joke it would be nice to make a million by the time I retired.
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