British novelist Henry Patterson, the bestselling author of “The Eagle Has Landed” has died, his publisher said Saturday. He was 92.
“It is with great sadness that HarperCollins shares the news that Henry Patterson, most commonly known to the general public by the pseudonym Jack Higgins, has died at the age of ninety-two, at home in Jersey (the British crown dependency) and surrounded by his family,” his publisher wrote on Twitter. “Our thoughts are with them at this time.”
Patterson was born on July 27, 1929, in the English city of Newcastle upon Tyne but grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
