Jack Higgins

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  • Bibliography:
    70 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1962
  • Latest Book:
    December 2016
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Jack Higgins was born on 27th July 1929 in Newcastle on Tyne, is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson. He moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland with his mother after his parents marriage foundered, and was raised there amid religious and political violence. He served two years in the British army as a non commissioned officer, on the East German border during the 1950’s. After leaving the army he studied sociology and Political science at London school of Economics. After completing his degree he worked for a time as a teacher and began writing novels in 1959. He is the author of more than sixty novels. He started to write under the name of Jack Higgins in the late 1960’s. As Higgins, most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ in 1975, nearly all have been best-sellers. ‘The Eagle Has Landed’ sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. He has also written under the names of Hugh Marlowe, and James Graham. He currently lives in Jersey, in the Channel Islands.


Publisher HarperCollins said that Higgins died at his home on the English Channel island of Jersey surrounded by his family on April 9, 2022, he was 92.

Full Series List in Order

Dougal Munro & Jack Carter

1 - Night of the Fox (Jan-1987)
2 - Cold Harbor (Jan-1990)

Liam Devlin

1 - The Eagle Has Landed (1975)
2 - Touch the Devil (1982)
3 - Confessional (1985)
4 - The Eagle Has Flown (1990)

Sean Dillon

1 - Eye of the Storm (Jul-1992)
2 - Thunder Point (Jun-1993)
3 - On Dangerous Ground (Mar-1994)
4 - Angel of Death (Mar-1995)
5 - Drink with the Devil (Jun-1996)
6 - The President's Daughter (May-1997)
7 - The White House Connection (May-1999)
8 - Day of Reckoning (Apr-2002)
9 - Edge of Danger (Feb-2001)
10 - Midnight Runner (Apr-2002)
11 - Bad Company (Jun-2003)
12 - Dark Justice (Aug-2004)
13 - Without Mercy (Sep-2005)
14 - The Killing Ground (Feb-2008)
15 - Rough Justice (Aug-2008)
16 - A Darker Place (Feb-2009)
17 - The Wolf at the Door (Jan-2010)
18 - The Judas Gate (Jan-2011)
19 - A Devil Is Waiting (Jan-2012)
20 - The Death Trade (Jan-2014)
21 - Rain on the Dead (Jan-2015)
22 - The Midnight Bell (Dec-2016)

Simon Vaughn

1 - Day of Judgment (1979)
2 - The Savage Day (1972)

Special Agent Paul Chavasse

1 - The Bormann Testament (1962)
2 - Year of the Tiger (1963)
3 - The Keys of Hell (1965)
4 - Midnight Never Comes (1966)
5 - Dark Side of the Street (1967)
6 - A Fine Night For Dying (1969)

Book List in Order: 70 titles

  • The Bormann Testament

    Special Agent Paul Chavasse - 1

    Special Agent Paul Chavasse is about to start a much-deserved holiday when he is abruptly pulled back to active duty. He knows that if he's being called into action, a job has gone bad--and it's about to get a lot worse. As Hitler's private secret...

  • Hell Is Too Crowded

    The girl claimed she was being followed, and he fell asleep drunk after escorting her home. But when American Matt Brady awakes, the place is crawling with London police, and the girl is dead. He is sent to prison for murder, but Matt knows he has to...

  • Year of the Tiger

    Special Agent Paul Chavasse - 2

    1962. The Cold War heats up as the space race begins. And one scientist, living under house arrest in Chinese-controlled Tibet, holds the key to victory. Paul Chavasse is inserted into Tibet on a desperate mission that may be the West's only hope ...

  • Passage by Night

    MAN WITH A MISSION His name is Harry Manning and he runs a charter fishing boat in the Bahamas. He is something of a rogue with a muddy past, and women adore him. He thinks a lot about Cuba and how he barely escaped with his life. So he drinks too m...

  • Wrath of the Lion

    At the height of the Cold War, a renegade submarine threatens to ignite Europe in all-out war The French submarine L’Alouette prowls deep beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, its crewmembers eager to spill blood in the service of their fre...

  • The Keys of Hell

    Special Agent Paul Chavasse - 3

    British expatriate Paul Chavasse is about as tough as they come. For years, he has made a dangerous living running men and intelligence across the Adriatic Sea from Italy to the communist country of Albania. But his ideals are about to be tested--mor...

  • Midnight Never Comes

    Special Agent Paul Chavasse - 4

    An ex-operative tries to keep a high-tech missile out of Russian hands in this thriller by the New York Times"bestselling author of The Death Trade.
     
    For ten years, Paul Chavasse was one of Britain’s most promising intelligen...

  • Dark Side of the Street

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    Special Agent Paul Chavasse - 5

    The Organization was all-powerful, and the Baron''s word was law. A sinister villain''s network, raking profits from all fields of crime. But one man is ready to storm them, and bring ''Babylon'' crashing down....

    For Harry Youngblood, it mea...

  • East of Desolation

    CAPE DESOLATION, GREENLAND--The wreckage of a private airplane is discovered high up in the icy desert. The pilot listed in the log and the body found near the plane are not the same. Charter pilot Joe Martin is hired by the pilot's widow and insuran...



  • A Fine Night For Dying

    Special Agent Paul Chavasse - 6

    Following the success of the repackaged and retitled Higgins classic The Bormann Testament, we continue the action with Special Agent Paul Chavasse. Now his investigation into the murder of a gangland boss uncovers a deadly conspiracy that reaches th...

  • In the Hour Before Midnight

    Stacey Wyatt knows the power of the Mafia. He has seen what its brutal vengeance and sinister corruption can do. But when he is broken out of prison and brought to Sicily, his only choice is to enter the Mafia's shadowy world of treachery and death. ...

  • Night Judgement at Sinos

    An adventurer, a multimillionaire, and a beautiful aristocrat-blood, love, and money bound them to a...Night Judgement at Sinos Jack Savage worked the trade with the highest mortality rate on earth. But at one hundred fathoms down, a diver has mor...

  • The Last Place God Made

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    Locals call it the Rio das Mortes—the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river’s deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of ma...

  • The Wrath of God

    A life of violence haunts 3 desperate men, whose attempts to escape their pasts only confirm their chosen way of life. Emmet Keogh is a trained assassin who can no longer remember how many people he has killed. Van Horne, a past priest, bank robber a...

  • The Savage Day

    Simon Vaughn - 2

    "What in hell are you after, Brigadier?" "I want you to come to work forme, Simon. In exchange, I'll get you out of prison. The slate wiped clean." "And what would I have to do in return?" "Oh, that's simple. I'd like you to take on the I.R....

  • The Khufra Run

    Jack Nelson came out of ‘Nam with two things: phenomenal flying skills and a serious problems taking orders from anyone. Now, he makes a decent living … almost entirely legal … peddling his talents to the highest bidder. But when he rescues a y...

  • The Run to Morning

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    Oliver Grant, once a decorated soldier, is now a case-hardened mercenary who sells his services to the highest bidder. He would seem to be the perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia Boss from a Libyan prison fortress....

  • The Eagle Has Landed

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Liam Devlin - 1

    Threatened on all sides, a desperate Adolph Hitler lashes out with an impossible order: kidnap Winston Churchill - or kill him. A disgraced war hero receives the suicidal mission - to take his commandos into the heart of England. In the quiet seaside...

  • The Valhalla Exchange

    April 1945: A bitter, bloody war draws to an end--yet for some the battle has just begun. The Berlin skies are lit with fire as Russian artillery reduces the city to rubble. In the Fiihrerbunker, the Nazi high command prepares to meet its fate: surre...



  • Storm Warning

    During World War II, a group of German expatriates trapped in Brazil must sail across five thousand miles of tempestuous water to reach their homeland--and face the deadly barricade of American and British military power. It's August 1944 and as t...

  • A Game for Heroes

    The days of the Third Reich are numbered … but on an isolated island outpost in the middle of the English Channel, the German army has vowed to fight to the death. Under a brilliant, ruthless S.S. commander, the Nazi invades have turned the once-pe...

  • Day of Judgment

    Simon Vaughn - 1

    It is May,1963. In one month, President John F Kennedy will visit West Berlin. In East Berlin, the Communists prepare a catastrophic welcome... In the dungeon of an ancient castle, miles east of the border, lies Father Sean Conlin--hero of the Wes...

  • Solo

    In Europe's capitals, the ultimate assassin shoots to kill. In those very cities, on the nights of the killings, the brilliant concern pianist John Mikali performs... Not even his lover, American psychologist Katherine Riley, suspects the truth. B...

  • The Dark Side of the Island

    When Captain Lomax returns to the Greek island of Kyros after World War II, he not only recalls the daring mission he had undertaken, but also the shocking betrayal and subsequent massacre which is as yet unexplained....

  • Luciano's Luck

    1943. A daring gamble to win the war on the Italian front. It meant bringing "Lucky" Luciano, king of the American underworld, face-to-face with his Italian counterpart. The American invasion of Sicily depended on the out-come-on the clash of two Maf...

  • Touch the Devil

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Liam Devlin - 2

    The hero of The Eagle Has Landed, Liam Devlin, has been kidnapped by British Intelligence and forced back into the terror game to hunt down a cold-blooded KGB assassin who has stolen NATO secret weapons. And the chase is on to catch a killer--in Jack...

  • Exocet

    There is only one weapon that could throw the British Task Force off the Falkland Islands: the Exocet. But Galtieri is running low on his nearly invincible weapon and British Intelligence also have a couple of secret weapons at their disposal, one of...

  • Toll for the Brave

    Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed for brainwashing. His beautiful captor, Madame Ny, seduces him into confusion, but fellow prisoner Brigadier General James Maxwell St. Clai...

  • Confessional

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Liam Devlin - 3

    The Russians trained him and planted him deep in the hottest spot in the free world -- Northern Ireland. He had the perfect cover and the perfect plan -- to kill the most beloved man on earth. Too late the Russians changed their minds. He was out of...



  • Testament of Casper Schultz

  • Night of the Fox

    Dougal Munro & Jack Carter - 1

    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: K...

  • A Season in Hell

    In Paris, a Cambridge University student is murdered. When his body arrives in England it will be stuffed with pure heroin .... On a training field used by Britain's elite Special Air Service, a young sergeant hones his killing skills to a savage pit...

  • Cold Harbor

    Dougal Munro & Jack Carter - 2

    In this Higgins adventure classic, an Allied spy operation is suddenly jeopardized just as it's about to discover Rommel's plans for defeating the D-Day invasion....

  • Memoirs of a Dance Hall Romeo

    The abrasively sentimental (and apparently autobiographical) narrative concerns Oliver Shaw, an eager young soldier just out of the British army in 1949 and ready for action of a different kind. " . . . and so," begins the novel, "I decided to devote...

  • The Eagle Has Flown

    • / Historical Mystery
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    Liam Devlin - 4

    As an increasingly isolated and insane Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reach the highest level of the Third Reich. German intelligence knows that paratroop officer Colonel Steiner survived "Operation Eagle," the bungled, to...

  • To Catch A King

    In July 1940, Walter Schellenberg is ordered by Hitler to proceed to Lisbon to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, a mission which thrusts him into an unlikely partnership with a beautiful American woman and a burgeoning anti-Nazi underground mov...

  • Dillinger

    In March 1934, America's most notorious criminal makes his spectacular escape from jail. Three months later, John Dillinger, the last American outlaw, is gunned down by FBI officers outside a movie theatre in Chicago. But what really happened during ...

  • Eye of the Storm

    Sean Dillon - 1

    Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorists for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillion's strengths and weaknesses...and bril...

  • Thunder Point

    Sean Dillon - 2

    1945. The day before Hitler commits suicide, he arranges for Nazi leader Martin Bormann to flee to South America in a German U-boat. 1992. Terrorist Sean Dillon is saved from a Yugoslavian firing squad--if he agrees to help the British government ...



  • On Dangerous Ground

    Sean Dillon - 3

    An explosive and timely thriller about the uncertain future of Hong Kong, China, and the world.... 1944. Mao Tse-tung signs a secret document that could delay the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong for an additional one hundred years. But all copies of...

  • Sheba

    The lost Temple of Sheba is not just a biblical legend. A German archaeologist has found it. The Nazis have claimed it. And one American explorer has stumbled upon their secret--a plot that could change the course of World War IL.. This elec...

  • Angel of Death

    Sean Dillon - 4

    They call themselves "January 30," after the date of a British massacre in Belfast. They are allied with no one, killing American diplomats and KGB agents, Arabs and Israelis, IRA gunmen and Loyalist soldiers. But they are definitely the enemies of p...

  • Drink with the Devil

    Sean Dillon - 5

    A fortune in stolen British gold lies shipwrecked at the bottom of the Irish Sea. And history's deadliest treasure hunt is on. Irish militant Michael Ryan wants to finance war in his homeland-and a sinister pact with the New York Mafia will make h...

  • Midnight Man

    Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorists for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillion's strengths and weaknesses...and bril...

  • The President's Daughter

    Sean Dillon - 6

    In 1969, Jake Cazalet saved the life of a Frenchwoman in Vietnam, and a brief, passionate affair ensued. Years later in Paris, he was introduced to another beautiful young woman - his daughter. For many reasons, their relationship remained a secret. ...

  • Flight of Eagles

    In the early days of World War II, nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers, fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys, Max and Harry Kelso have grown up to become ace fi...

  • Bloody Passage

    Oliver Grant, once a decorated soldier, is now a case-hardened mercenary who sells his services to the highest bidder. He would seem to be the perfect choice to rescue the stepson of a millionaire Mafia Boss from a Libyan prison fortress....

  • The White House Connection

    Sean Dillon - 7

    New York: Late at night, the rain pouring down, a well-dressed woman in her sixties stands in a doorway, a gun in her purse, waiting for a senator to come home. Washington, D.C.: The phone rings on the desk of Blake Johnson, head of the White House d...

  • Pay the Devil

    Published more than 30 years ago under a pseudonym, this novel is available for the first time in America. A Confederate colonel escapes to Ireland after the Civil War, only to get caught up in a conflict over there. Taking the guise of a legendary o...



  • Edge of Danger

    Sean Dillon - 9

    For hundreds of years, the Rashid has flourished. Now, endowed with a mix of sturdy British and fiery Arab bloodlines, they have become a remarkable family of warriors--equally at home in the streets of London or under the desert sun. And now they ha...

  • Day of Reckoning

    Sean Dillon - 8

    Journalist Katherine Johnson made the mistake of getting too close to the secrets of international crime boss Jack Fox - but Fox made the mistake of killing her. Katherine's ex-husband is Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House department ...

  • Midnight Runner

    Sean Dillon - 10

    After her brothers are killed one by one, oil heiress Kate Rashid--now the richest woman in the world--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...

  • Bad Company

    Sean Dillon - 11

    Now an enemy has emerged with a dark secret from America's past--and a score to settle with agent Dillon. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his "holy" diary--a document detailing clandestine communications between Nazi Germany a...

  • Dark Justice

    Sean Dillon - 12

    Now, the heroic covert intelligence team of Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon must fight a very different kind of war--with a very different set of rules. In Manhattan, the President is planning to have dinner with an old friend. In a darkened buildin...

  • Without Mercy

    Sean Dillon - 13

    In Jack Higgins's acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, Sean Dillon and his allies beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive--only one does... As D...

  • The Killing Ground

    Sean Dillon - 14

    In the New York limes bestseller Without Mercy, Sean Dillon and his allies took vengeance on their deadliest enemies. Now, Dillon is pulled into a mission of mercy -- though he will be shown none... For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins ...

  • Rough Justice

    Sean Dillon - 15

    Intrigue in the halls of power, blood in the streets -- the master of suspense returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds. Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs...

  • A Darker Place

    Sean Dillon - 16

    Outspoken Russian writer Alexander Kurbsky wanted to "disappear" into the West. To avoid the wrath of the ruling elite, he makes elaborate plans with covert experts Charles Ferguson and Sean Dillon for his escape. It's a real coup for the West-except...

  • The Wolf at the Door

    Sean Dillon - 17

    On Long Island, a trusted operative for the president nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the prime minister, approaches his car on a side street, when ...

  • Thousand Faces of Night

    One man’s race to recover a hidden treasure becomes a struggle for survival against a violent criminal underworld Hugh Marlowe spent five years in prison thinking only of the fortune he’d stashed away before being thrown behind bars. Unfortuna...

  • The Judas Gate

    Sean Dillon - 18

    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 Tal...

  • A Devil Is Waiting

    Sean Dillon - 19

    A devil is indeed waiting . . . The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has cro...

  • The Death Trade

    Sean Dillon - 20

    The master of suspense returns with a cutting-edge tale that pits his heroes Sean Dillon and Sara Gideon against the nuclear ambitions of Iran. An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can...

  • Rain on the Dead

    Sean Dillon - 21

    The past comes back to haunt Sean Dillon and his colleagues, as the New York Times-bestselling master of suspense returns with a knife-edge story of terrorism, revenge, and a very old nemesis. In the past few years, the killing and capture of man...

  • The Midnight Bell

    Sean Dillon - 22

    “The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it.” -- Irish proverb In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. Her sons swear revenge. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues in the “...

  • Comes the Dark Stranger

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    The New York Times"bestselling author of The Midnight Bell delivers a searing novel of psychological suspense in which the past and present collide.
     
    Martin Shane is looking for someone to kill. He just doesn’t know who . ....

  • Day of Judgement

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    In May 1963, President John F. Kennedy prepares to make his historic visit to West Berlin—and in East Berlin a covert group of ruthless killers prepares its final plan for the destruction of the West...The one man with the power to oppose them i...

  • The Iron Tiger

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    A pilot’s struggle for survival against both nature and man from the international bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed and The Midnight Bell.
     
    Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of...

  • Sad Wind from the Sea

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    A gunrunner’s hunt for a fortune leads to a life-and-death struggle in Communist China in New York Times"bestselling author Jack Higgins’s very first novel.
     
    Mark Hagen is a far cry from the man he once was as a naval offic...

  • The Violent Enemy

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    Britain’s most wanted political offender. A seductively beautiful woman, and the dream of a perfect escape-Many lives had been sacrificed for the Irish cause, but legendary freedom fighter Colum O-Mare, ageing and critically ill, was ready to gambl...

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Jack Higgins has published 70 books.

Jack Higgins does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Midnight Bell, was published in December 2016.

The first book by Jack Higgins, Hell Is Too Crowded, was published in January 1962.

Yes. Jack Higgins has 5 series.
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