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Robert Dex

Eagle Has Landed novelist Jack Higgins dies aged 92

Novelist Jack Higgins who has died aged 92

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Best-selling novelist Henry Patterson, who wrote 85 books – including The Eagle Has Landed – as Jack Higgins, has died aged 92, his publisher HarperCollins said.

Patterson, who mainly wrote thrillers and espionage novels – selling more than 250 million copies and being translated into some 60 languages, died at his home in Jersey surrounded by his family, HarperCollins said.

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