Jack Higgins, author of ‘The Eagle Has Landed,’ dies at age 92 - PBS NewsHour

e became a teacher in the northern city of Leeds and a writer in his spare time, with novels that sold modestly starting in the late 1950s. That changed with the 1975 publication of “The Eagle Has Landed,” about a fictional World War II plot to kidnap British…

LONDON (AP) British author Jack Higgins, who wrote The Eagle Has Landed and other bestselling thrillers and espionage novels, has died. He was 92. Publisher HarperCollins said that Higgins died at h… [+2227 chars]

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