Jack Higgins

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Henry Patterson (born 27 July 1929), also known as Jack Higgins, is a British writer.

He is one of the best-selling authors of popular thrillers and espionage books.

Eagle Has Landed (1975), The Eagle Has Flown (1991), A Prayer for the Dying (1995), The Eagle Has Flown (1995), and Day of Reckoning (1999).

His 85 books have sold over 150 million copies and have been translated into 55 languages.

Early life

Henry Patterson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on July 27th, 1929, to an English father and a Northern Irish mother. When his father died soon after, his mother and her grandfather moved with him to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she and her mother, Joseph, live on the Shankill Road. Patterson, who was baptized to read The Christian Herald to his bed-ridden grandfather, was rescued amid Belfast's religious and political violence. He'd crouch under a window and read by the light of street lamps at night.

The family moved to Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, where Patterson received a scholarship to attend Roundhay Grammar School for Boys when his mother remarried. He was an indifferent student and left college with no formal education. He began two years of national service in 1947, first with the East Yorkshire Regiment and later as a non-commissioned officer of the Royal Horse Guards Regiment of the Household Cavalry doing intelligence work on the East German border.

After leaving the army, he returned to education at Beckett Park tutor training college in Leeds and pursued for a BSc sociology degree as a London School of Economics external student, graduating in 1961 in Bradford. He was still working as a driver and laborer at night by day's end. He chose the university for its "history of nonconformism." He earned his third-class diploma after three years of study. He began teaching at Allerton Grange Comprehensive School after receiving a teaching qualification. He accepted a teaching position in social psychology and criminology. He taught liberal studies at Leeds Polytechnic and Education, which became part of Leeds Polytechnic in 1976.

Personal life and death

When both were attending the London School of Economics, Higgins met Amy Hewitt. They were married in 1958, shortly after receiving a £75 advance on his first book—"the best wedding present we could have had." They had four children: Sarah (born 1960), Ruth (born 1962), Sean (born 1965), and Hannah (born 1974). Sarah Patterson wrote The Distant Summer (1976), their daughter's book. In 1984, the marriage was ended. Denise Palmer, his second wife, married him in 1985.

Higgins died in Jersey on April 9, 2022, at the age of 92.

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Career

Higgins began writing novels in 1959. James Graham was one of his aliases. He took time off from teaching to become a full-time novelist as a result of his growing popularity.

Patterson's early books, as well as pseudonyms James Graham, Martin Fallon, and Hugh Marlowe, are thrillers that often feature hardened, cynical heroes, ruthless villains, and dangerous locales. Patterson wrote thirty-five books (mostly three or four a year) between 1959 and 1974, learning his craft. East Of Desolation (1968), A Game For Heroes (1970) and The Savage Day (1972) are two of his early drawings for their vividly described settings (Greenland, the Channel Islands, and Belfast, respectively), as well as offbeat plots.

Patterson began using the pseudonym Jack Higgins in the late 1960s, two contemporary thrillers The Savage Day and A Prayer for the Dying were published in 1975, but it was the debut of his thirty-sixth book, The Eagle Has Landed, that established Higgins' fame. Its plot: A German commando unit sent into England to kidnap Winston Churchill. Liam Devlin, an Irish gunman and poet, is the main protagonist. Higgins continued with a series of thrillers, one of which (Touch the Devil, Confessional, The Eagle Has Flown) starring Devlin was included in The Eagle Has Landed.

Patterson's third phase began with the publication of Eye of the Storm, a fictionalized retelling of an unsuccessful mortar assault on Prime Minister John Major aspired by an Iraqi millionaire. Cast as the principal character of the forthcoming collection of books (22 out of 43 published between 1992 and 2017), it's apparent that Dillon is in several ways a mash-up of Patterson's predecessors: Chavasse's knack for languages, Nick Miller's proficiency with martial arts and jazz keyboard skills, Simon Vaughan's Irish roots, institution with firearms, and general dissatisfaction with being given the burden of governing a justice system that is not accessible to

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