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Henry Patterson, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 27 July 1929, was a British novelist best known by his pen name Jack Higgins. He also wrote as James Graham, Martin Fallon, Hugh Marlowe and Harry Patterson before settling on Jack Higgins for most of his career. His 1975 novel The Eagle Has Landed, a thriller imagining a German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill, became an international bestseller and was adapted into a 1976 film. He went on to write more than 80 thrillers, including the l...

Justin Richards is a British writer. He has written many spin-off novels, reference books and audio plays based on the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and he is Creative Consultant for the BBC Books range of Doctor Who novels.