Henry Patterson, the best-selling author of The Eagle has Landed, has died aged 92, his publisher has announced. Patterson, who published under his pen name of Jack Higgins, wrote 85 novels between…
, wrote 85 novels between 1959 and 2017, selling more than 250million books over the course of his career., published in 1975. The story, about a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill during World War Two, became a film the following year, directed by John Sturges and starring Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland and Michael Caine.
Patterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and grew up in Belfast, before moving to Leeds. He worked initially as a teacher before penning novels in his spare time. His first published novel was
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