Jack Higgins

Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer.

The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.

Lived: 1929 -

Alias: Harry Patterson

Author Of

The Bormann Testament

Special Agent Paul Chavasse knows that if he’s being called into action, the job is going bad-and is about to get worse. For a manuscript that exposes former Nazis now in hiding is up for grabs, and Paul must retrieve it before they destroy it-and him.

Year of the Tiger

Paul Chavasse was set for a quiet evening when he noticed the old women standing in the shadows opposite the house. The message from the past that she conveyed was to have dramatic and far reaching consequences, involving a daring adventure in Chinese-occupied Tibet.

A Darker Place

Dillon and company are back in the ultimate blockbuster from the ‘legend’ that is Jack Higgins Disillusioned with the Putin Government, famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper Alexander Kurbsky decides he wants to disappear into the West. However he is under no illusions about how the news will be greeted at home – he has seen(…)

The Keys of Hell

Super-spy Paul Chavasse embarks on a mission to Albania, to find a double agent whose cover has been blown and put him out of commission, permanently. Once there he finds himself at the centre of a deadly double-cross, fighting for his life.

The Graveyard Shift

The Graveyard Shift is the first of three classic police thrillers featuring detective Nick Miller-now available in America for the first time… An ex-convict and an unconventional cop duke it out in the midnight hours-only one of them will live to see the dawn.

Brought in Dead

When a young woman commits suicide, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller follows a hazardous trail to find the powerful man responsible for the girl’s fate, only to watch him walk out of court a free man. But the dead girl’s father swears to exact justice–with or without the law on his side.

Hell is Always Today

They called him the Rainlover. That was the only thing about him that was certain. He only murdered when the nights were dark and the streets were wet – and at a place where there would be no witneses. The Rainlover could be anyone and it was up to Miller and Mallroy to find out(…)

The Wolf at the Door

Putin and the Russians have suffered too many killings of their own people in the past. Now they want the whole of the ‘Prime Minister’s private army’ wiped out, including Blake Johnson and Charles Ferguson. Somebody is after them: Blake, Harry Miller, his sister, Monica, Harry Salter and Billy. The only people spared are Roper(…)

The Judas Gate

Treachery has a price, in the mesmerizing new Sean Dillon thriller from the Sunday Times-bestselling author. A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team(…)

A Devil is Waiting

The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small(…)

The Death Trade

An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can’t stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn’t know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the(…)

A Prayer for the Dying

While a killer stalks the streets of London, Detective sergeant Nick Miller is more concerned with a light-heavyweight boxer-turned-expert-cat-burgler who has busted out of prison. High above the streets, cop and convict will face down their most daunting challenges the only way they know how.

Night of the Fox

The plan for the invasion of Hitler’s channel stronghold is the Allies’ greatest secret. So when Colonel Hugh Kelso is pulled from the sea off German-occupied Jersey a crisis erupts as he knows the exact details of the invasion. The Allies launch a mission – to rescue or silence the Colonel.

Cold Harbour

A mission ends in terror for agent Osbourne, as he floats in the sea off the coast of Brittany. A German warship hauls Osbourne to safety. The Allies are ready to play their dirtiest trick – a trained operative in a disguised E-boat with the name Lili Marlene emblazoned on its brow…

Flight of Eagles

Brothers Max and Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides in World War II – Max as one of the Luftwaffe’s most feared pilots, Harry as a Yankee ace in the RAF. They had been separated as boys, but neither could have predicted the circumstances under which they would next meet.

The Eagle has Landed

It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: “Operation Eagle”, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler’s audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.

Touch the Devil

When the Russians demand a blueprint of the latest NATO missile system, only one man is left alive who can deliver the goods. But there’s an old saying, first touch the devil and you can’t let go.

Confessional

Operating in Ireland to keep the cycle of violence between the IRA and British Intelligence at a fever pitch, hit man Cuchulain targets the pope as his ultimate victim, and two enemies become the only people who can stop him.

The Eagle has Flown

The sequel to “The Eagle has Landed”. By the end of 1943, all the evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Chuchill has been buried in a grave in Norfolk. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive, and the Reichsfuhrer is demanding the eagle’s return.

Dark Side of the Island

The Greek islands, sun-drenched and tranquil, evoke pictures from a tourist brochure. It takes a special imagination to dredge their blood-soaked history when, as a subject land in WW II, island revolts were crushed by the occupying Germans. In those days, Hugh Lomax was sent by the British to aid the Greeks in their struggle.(…)

Wrath of the Lion

A fanatical militia roam the northern seas, ready to take on all comers in the name of a self-proclaimed vision of France. To track down the maverick militia and bring them to justice is a task for the agent they call “The Butcher”.

Dillinger / Thunder At Noon

Dillinger, America’s most notorious outlaw, escaped from Lake County Jail in Indiana and vanished in 1934. This is a dramatic fictional account of Dillinger’s last days that ends with his eventual death at the hands of the FBI in Chicago.

East of Desolation

Joe Martin is unaware that the plane flight three strangers want him to make from the coast of Greenland to the site of a plane crash on the polar icecap may well get him killed.

In the Hour Before Midnight (The Sicilian Heritage)

In the world of the Mafia, sometimes death is the only way out…

The Iron Tiger

Jack Drummond is an adventurer — a tough ex-naval pilot who is fed up with too many hot countries and strange cities. He resolves to fly only one more mission. Dropping off an illegal shipment of arms in Tibet (his last), Drummond is suddenly caught up in a bloody border war. To escape he must(…)

The Last Place God Made

Sam Hannah had been a flying ace in the RAF. Now he is flying ancient planes across the jungles of Brazil. Neil Mallory is also a flyer – he needed a job and Hannah needed a partner. Their adversaries were the vast jungles and the Huna Indians, but they also came to be set against(…)

Luciano’s Luck

From the bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a heart-stopping, gripping tale set in the dark, violent storm of World War II. In 1943, a British intelligence operative, two American Rangers, an extraordinary woman, and an American Mafia overlord parachute into Nazi-occupied Sicily to convince the Sicilian Mafian king to back invading American(…)

The Savage Day

The British Army are fighting a bloody undercover battle against an enemy close to home. Which is why they seem prepared to forget the ex-Major Simon Vaughan’s past, spring him from prison and offer him a free hand – for in Northern Ireland it’s time for the dog of war to have his savage day.

A Season in Hell

Sarah Talbot is determined to avenge the death of her stepson. Sean Egan, ex-SAS sergeant, is at first reluctant to act as assassin, until he discovers a personal link. Together they begin the hunt for a ruthless man whose trade involves not only drugs but also international terrorism.

Sheba/Seven Pillars to Hell

In 1939, American archaeologist and part-time smuggler Gavin Kane is hired by a beautiful woman to find her missing husband, who embarked on an expedition to discover the legendary Temple of Sheba. When Kane finds the ancient ruin, it has become a Nazi stronghold and base of operations for Hitler’s master plan: the destruction of(…)

Solo (The Creton Lover)

Behind the image of a Cretan concert pianist lurks the reality of a ruthless killer. However, when his car knocks down and kills the daughter of an SAS soldier, he makes a rare and fatal error. For with a member of the SAS on your heels, it is only a matter of time.

Pay the Devil

At the end of the American Civil War, Confederate Colonel Clay Fitzgerald escapes to Ireland, where his uncle has left him an estate, only to find that Ireland is caught up in a civil war of its own. The struggle between the wealthy landlords and the impoverished tenant farmers is growing in intensity, and having(…)

Storm Warning

During World War II, a group of German expatriates trapped in Brazil must sail across five thousand miles of tempestuous water to reach their homeland-and face the deadly barricade of American and British military power.

The Dark Side of the Street

Someone is breaking Britain’s most notorious criminals out of jail. His code name is the Baron, and the only way to stop him is to put an operative inside prison walls–and let the Baron get him out. From the author of On Deadly Ground.

Violent Enemy (A Candle for the Dead)

Sean Rogan, an ageing fighter, escapes from prison. But he finds the old certainties of the struggle for Irish freedom have been replaced by compromise. There is also the matter of a beautiful girl with a fascination as powerful as any political ideal.

Eye of the Storm (Midnight Man)

Sean Dillon is an assassin, a hired hand who, despite working for the IRA, PLO and ETA, has not seen the inside of a prison cell. He’s just the man that Iraqi, Michael Aroun has been looking for – the kind of professional who won’t flinch from an attack on the offices of British government.

Thunder Point

A u-boat, sunk in the deepest waters of the Caribbean, has remained hidden for almost 50 years. But the discovery of the secrets it holds could bring down the British Government. The race to find the sealed container, to use it or destroy it, is fiercely contested by many interested parties.

On Dangerous Ground

In ‘On Dangerous Ground’ Jack Higgins weaves together big business interests, the Hong Kong Treaty and the deadly intrigues of the Mafia.

Angel of Death

They call themselves “January 30, ” after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are the enemies of peace–and they are plotting an assassination that will shatter the uneasy truce that reigns in Ireland. Former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon must hunt down January 30 before they kill again–before they spark a war.

Drink with the Devil

A dangerous Loyalist prisoner has escaped from a top-security US prison and is en route to Ireland, with the intention of buying arms and blowing the peace process out of the water. The only man who can avert disaster is IRA enforcer-turned-British secret agent, Sean Dillon.

The President’s Daughter

In Mekong Delta, Jake Cazalet, US Special Forces Officer, rescues a woman. Many years later, someone is using the discovery of what really happened to blackmail him – a move which threatens the world, because Cazalet is now President of the United States.

The White House Connection

Someone is killing members of splinter group, Sons of Erin. Normally not a major concern but this could lead to the fall of two governments and the derailing of the Irish peace process. Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson join forces to stop the assassin.

Day of Reckoning

It’s all action and suspense as Sean Dillon and his secret intelligence colleagues seek to help American White House security insider Blake Johnson avenge the death of his ex-wife, a reporter murdered for getting too close to a Mafia story. In London, Beirut and Ireland, the daredevil friends are prepared to risk everything as they(…)

Edge of Danger

Half British and half Arab, Paul Rashid is proud to be both heir to the ancient Dauncey Place in England and the leader of the Rashid Bedouin of Hazar in the Persian Gulf. He is a man for whom family honour is everything. So when he uncovers an international conspiracy that threatens to use any(…)

Dark Justice

Jack Higgins pits the heroic covert intelligence team of Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon against a hidden foe in a very different kind of game……..with a very differnet set of rules.

The Killing Ground

Soldier, spy, fixer and assassin Igor Levin may have escaped the grasp of Sean Dillon and company in Higgins’ 2005 bestseller Without Mercy – but that doesn’t mean they’ve heard the last of him.

Midnight Runner

A ruthless killer is seeking revenge — and she has Sean Dillon in her sights — in this adrenalin-fuelled adventure from the master of the modern thriller. The murderous Rashid family were forced to pay the ultimate price for their crimes by the British Government’s secret enforcer Sean Dillon and his undercover team. Yet one(…)

Bad Company

Undercover enforcer Sean Dillon tackles a new crisis as Presidential skeletons threaten to burst from the closet — in the dramatic new thriller from the master of suspense, the author of the international bestsellers Day of Reckoning, Edge of Danger and Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary(…)

Without Mercy

On the pavement, Hannah Bernstein was trying to haul herself up, clutching at the railings as Dillon got to her. “You’re all right, just hold on to me.” But there was blood coming down her face, and he was afraid. Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible(…)

Rough Justice

Whilst checking up on the volatile situation in Kosovo the US President’s right-hand man Blake Johnson meets Major Harry Miller, a member of the British Cabinet. Miller is there doing his own checks for the British Prime Minister. When both men get involved with a group of Russian soldiers about to commit an atrocity, Miller(…)

Jack Higgins

Author Of

Permission to speak freely soldier, let me know what you think!