Jack Higgins, author who shot to worldwide fame with his novel The Eagle Has Landed – obituary - The Telegraph

He wrote 85 novels that often upturned thriller conventions by casting stereotyped villains as heroes

When he was two his parents marriage broke up and his mother took him back to her family home in the Shankill area of Belfast, where she worked as a waitress. He witnessed his first bombing aged eigh… [+824 chars]

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