The Eagle has Landed

Pages: 384
Published: 1992
Language: English

In November 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers lands on British soil with a daring objective: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. This high-stakes mission, personally ordered by Hitler and orchestrated by Heinrich Himmler, is spearheaded by ace agent Kurt Steiner and supported by IRA gunman Liam Devlin on the ground. The fate of the war hangs in the balance as this audacious plot unfolds.

Prose complexity: 4/10

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Heist

Espionage Historical Fiction Thriller World War II Suspense Political Thriller

Henry Patterson

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...