Jack Higgins, the 'useless' Belfast schoolboy who went on to write The Eagle Has Landed, dies at 92 - The Irish Times

The adventure novelist sold 250 million books. A number of his works have Irish themes

Jack Higgins, the author of dozens of bestselling adventure novels, most notably The Eagle Has Landed, a hugely popular tale about a band of German commandos who infiltrate Britain to try to kidnap P… [+7098 chars]

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