Higgins, Jack 1929-

Overview

Works:	1,315 works in 5,475 publications in 12 languages and 201,167 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Political fiction Suspense fiction Drama Spy stories History War stories Adventure stories Film adaptations Detective and mystery stories
Roles:	Bibliographic antecedent, Research team head, Conceptor, Director
Classifications:	PR6058.I343, 823.914

Publication Timeline

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Publications about Jack Higgins

Publications by Jack Higgins

Most widely held works about Jack Higgins

The eagle has landed by John Sturges ( Visual )
Best Sellers ( Book )
The eagle has landed ( Visual )
Night of the fox ( Visual )
Day of judgement by Harry Patterson ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Jack Higgins

The eagle has landed by Jack Higgins ( Book )
93 editions published between 1975 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Adolf Hitler orders a group of German commandos to either kidnap or kill Winston Churchill and a young IRA assassin joins the plan

Edge of danger by Jack Higgins ( Book )
35 editions published between 1999 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An assassination is planned, but who is the intended victim? Members of the powerful Rashid family plan revenge in a plot worthy of both their British and Arab heritages. This sparks the latest adventure of clandestine operatives Sean Dillon, Blake Johnson, and Hannah Bernstein

Bad company by Jack Higgins ( Book )
34 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 4,156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When Hitler's secret diary resurfaces, revealing a plot between the United States and Germany to join forces against the Soviet Union, White House operative Blake Johnson acts to secure the diary and keep it hidden--Novelist

Killing ground by Jack Higgins ( Book )
30 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 4,152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Entreated for help by an English-Bedouin man whose thirteen-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and forced to marry a terrorist, intelligence operative Sean Dillon finds his willing assistance sparking a deadly chain of events

The wolf at the door by Jack Higgins ( Book )
25 editions published between 2009 and 2011 in English and held by 4,088 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Who's knocking off members of a special intelligence unit known as the prime minister's private army? Only Sean Dillon has a clue

Without mercy by Jack Higgins ( Book )
33 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in English and held by 4,084 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
When detective superintendent Hannah Bernstein is murdered, grief-stricken intelligence operatives Sean Dillon, Blake, and Ferguson set out to catch the killer, unaware that their efforts will have a life-changing impact

Dark justice by Jack Higgins ( Book )
28 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 4,020 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An attempt on the life of the U.S. president during a visit to Manhattan is the first step in a plot involving the recruitment of a network of terrorists, and it is up to Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon to uncover the mastermind behind it all

Cold harbour by Jack Higgins ( Book )
37 editions published between 1990 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,962 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As D-day approaches in Europe, the Allied command learns of a German staff conference to be held in Brittany at the Chateau de Voincourt, where the Nazis will discuss their Atlantic Wall defense strategy. Foreknowledge of these plans could mean the difference between success and failure for the Allied invasion, and as luck would have it, the chateau happens to be the home of an undercover French Resistance agent, beautiful Anne-Marie Trevaunce

The White House connection by Jack Higgins ( Book )
28 editions published between 1952 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,940 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American widow after a British lord turns avenger when her son is gunned down by Irish terrorists. Lady Helen Lang, who is in her sixties, uses a revolver, a computer and a government file

The eagle has flown : a novel by Jack Higgins ( Book )
47 editions published between 1990 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 3,918 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As an increasingly isolated and insane Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reach the highest levels of the Third Reich. German intelligence knows that paratroop officer Steiner survived "Operation Eagle," the bungled assassination attempt on Winston Churchill, and is now a POW somewhere in London. Reichsführer Himmler wants him back -- at any cost -- and puts his top espionage agents in charge of the perilous rescue mission. Racing from the nightclubs of Lisbon to Hitler's opulent country retreat to the damp streets of London, Himmler's men get closer to their target -- and to the shattering true objective of their mission

A darker place by Jack Higgins ( Book )
27 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 3,917 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."

Angel of death by Jack Higgins ( Book )
43 editions published between 1995 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 3,904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Britain, agent Sean Dillon is ordered to destroy "January 30," a terrorist organization spreading chaos to pave the way for a new Communist state. The group is led by a British actress--the angel of the title--who assassinates people with a machine pistol from the saddle of her motorcycle. By the author of The Eagle Has Landed

The Judas Gate by Jack Higgins ( Book )
28 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,890 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor

Midnight runner by Jack Higgins ( Book )
35 editions published between 2002 and 2006 in English and French and held by 3,880 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
After her brothers are killed one by one, Kate Rashid swears vengeance on all who have harmed her family. Never mind that they tried to assassinate the President of the United States, that villainy ran in their veins. They were her brothers, and her enemies will pay. Masterfully suspenseful, Midnight Runner is further proof that, in the words of the Associated Press, " when it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd--Jack Higgins."

Drink with the Devil by Jack Higgins ( Book )
35 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 3,812 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Former IRA terrorist Sean Dillon, now a British secret service agent, is ordered to recover a shipment of gold from a sunken barge before the Protestant paramilitary do so. The Protestants, who stole the gold in the first place, intend to use it to escalate the war and scuttle the peace talks

Night of the fox by Jack Higgins ( Book )
47 editions published between 1986 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 3,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
On a secret sea maneuver just before D-Day, American Colonel Hugh Kelso goes down in the English Channel. Wounded and adrift for days, he washes ashore on the German-occupied island of Jersey. The news spreads panic through the Allied high command: Kelso knows the time and place of the invasion. He must be rescued -- or silenced. A British professor turned Nazi impersonator and a young Jersey girl posing as his mistress set off to find Kelso in the fiercely guarded island fortress. The pair join a deadly game of wits that they must win ... or perish in the darkness of the Night of the Fox

Rough justice by Jack Higgins ( Book )
32 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,791 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque--or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates, including Britain's Sean Dillon, but for a great many people, all the way to the top of the governments of the United States, Britain, and Russia.--From publisher description

Eye of the storm by Jack Higgins ( Book )
33 editions published between 1992 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 3,757 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of diguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses ... and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening - and true - event: Iraq's attempted mortar attack on the British war cabinet at 10 Downing Street in Februrary 1991

The president's daughter by Jack Higgins ( Book )
36 editions published between 1997 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An Israeli terrorist abducts the U.S. president's illegitimate daughter--born of a liaison during the Vietnam War--and threatens to kill her if the U.S. does not attack Arab countries. The president hires a former IRA terrorist to rescue her

On dangerous ground by Jack Higgins ( Book )
43 editions published between 1994 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 3,729 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
British agent Charles Ferguson is sent to recover the stolen Chunking Covenant. In it Mao Tse Tung agreed to extend British rule in Hong Kong for another century if the Communists won. Publication of the document by hostile elements could spark riots in Hong Kong and lead to armed intervention by China

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