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Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.
<p>‘Open a Jack Higgins novel and you’ll encounter a master craftsman at the peak of his powers … first-rate tales of intrigue, suspense and full-on action.’</p>
<p>Sunday Express</p>
<p>‘Higgins is a master of his craft.’</p>
<p>Daily Telegraph</p>
<p>‘A thriller writer in a class of his own.’</p>
<p>Financial Times</p>
<p>‘The master craftsman of good, clean adventure.’</p>
<p>Daily Mail</p>
In 1959 agents acting for British Intelligence masterminded the famous escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. For Paul Chavasse, expert linguist and special agent of the Bureau, it had been a once-in-a-lifetime mission …
But three years later, Whitehall summons him again for a top secret mission against the occupying Chinese forces. Chavasse is the only man who knows about Tibet. Who knows about the evil its oppressors are capable of. Who knows how to bring a vitally important space scientist back to the West alive.
An illegal plane flight through the Himalayas, a dangerous rendezvous with the Tibetan freedom fighters, almost certain confrontation with a trigger-happy army and a vicious captor … Chavasse knew his mission would be difficult and dangerous. No one warned him it would be impossible.
In 1959 agents acting for British Intelligence masterminded the famous escape of the Dalai Lama from Tibet. For Paul Chavasse, expert linguist and special agent of the Bureau, it had been a once-in-a-lifetime mission …
• Jack Higgins is one of the biggest selling and recogniseable names in thriller fiction with over 200 million copies of his novels in print.
• Jack Higgins is the author of the highly acclaimed and million copy bestselling The Eagle Has Landed.
• Recent Jack Higgins titles have sold in excess of 100,000 copies.
Competition: Munich; Fatherland; V2; The Last Nazi; The Deceiver; An Eye for an Eye; Jack Reacher; Testament. By; James Patterson;Clive Cussler; Andy McNab; Frederick Forsyth; Robert Harris; Jeffrey Archer; Lee Child; Rory Clements; Wilbur Smith; Andrew Turpin
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.