Jack Higgins is among the world’s most popular authors. Since the publication of The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel he has written has become an international bestseller, including The White House Connection and Day of Reckoning. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and has been published in thirty-eight languages worldwide.

Many of his books have been made into successful movies, among them The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch A King, and The Valhalla Exchange.

He lives with his wife on Jersey in the Channel Islands.