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((short description|British novelist (1929–2022)))
((redirect|Harry Patterson|the American printer and botanist|Harry Norton Patterson|the president of Maryland Agricultural College|Harry J. Patterson))
((other people))
((Use dmy dates|date=April 2022))
((Use British English|date=November 2014))
((Infobox writer
| name = Jack Higgins
| image = Jack Higgins photo.webp
| caption = Higgins in 1983
| birth_name = Henry Patterson
| birth_date = ((birth date|df=y|1929|07|27))
| birth_place = [[Newcastle upon Tyne]], England
| death_date  = ((death date and age|2022|04|09|1929|07|27|df=y))
| death_place = [[Jersey]], [[Channel Islands]]
| occupation = Novelist
| alma_mater = [[London School of Economics]]
| period = 1959–2017
| genre = [[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]], [[Spy fiction|espionage]], [[Mystery fiction|mystery]]
| notableworks = ((Plainlist|
* ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]]''
* ''[[A Prayer for the Dying]]''
* ''[[The Eagle Has Flown]]''
* ''[[Thunder Point]]''
* ''[[Angel of Death (novel)|Angel of Death]]''
* ''[[Flight of Eagles]]''
* ''[[Day of Reckoning (novel)|Day of Reckoning]]''
))
| spouses = ((unbulleted list
| ((marriage|Amy Hewitt|1958|1984))
| ((marriage|Denise Palmer|1985))
))
| children = 4
))

'''Henry Patterson''' (27 July 1929 – 9 April 2022), commonly known by his [[pen name]] '''Jack Higgins''', was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular [[Thriller (genre)|thrillers]] and [[Spy fiction|espionage]] novels. His novel ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' (1975) sold more than 50 million copies<ref name="guardian"/> and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie [[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|of the same title]].<ref name="nytimes"/>

Some of his other notable books are ''[[A Prayer for the Dying]]'' (1973), ''[[The Eagle Has Flown]]'' (1991), ''[[Thunder Point]]'' (1993), ''[[Angel of Death (novel)|Angel of Death]]'' (1995), ''[[Flight of Eagles]]'' (1998), and ''[[Day of Reckoning (novel)|Day of Reckoning]]'' (2000).<ref name="guardian"/> His 85 novels in total have sold more than 250 million copies and have been translated into 55 languages.<Ref>[https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/jack-higgins Jack Higgins]</ref>

==Early life==
Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson<ref name="people"/> on 27 July 1929 in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] to an English father and a Northern Irish mother.<ref name="guardian"/> When his father abandoned them soon afterward, his mother returned with him to her home town of [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], to live with her mother and her grandfather on the [[Shankill Road]].<ref name="guardian"/><ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/growing-up-in-divided-belfast-my-inspiration-reveals-author-jack-higgins-34442319.html|title=Growing up in divided Belfast my inspiration, reveals author Jack Higgins|work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk|access-date=6 December 2017|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235))</ref> Raised amid the religious and political violence of Belfast, Patterson learned to read at the age of three, when he was tasked with reading ''The Christian Herald'' to his bed-ridden grandfather.<ref name="guardian"/> At night, he would crouch beneath a window and read by the light of street lamps.
((quote|I read ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' when I was six. Not because it was a classic, but because it was a book that was available. I probably didn't understand everything in it—for years I used to pronounce the word rogue as ''rogger''—but I didn't care. I just loved reading.<ref name="guardian"/>))

When his mother remarried, the family relocated to [[Leeds]], [[West Yorkshire]], England, where Patterson won a scholarship to attend [[Roundhay School|Roundhay Grammar School for Boys]].<ref name="Guardian2022">((cite news|last=Ripley|first=Mike|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/10/jack-higgins-obituary|title=Jack Higgins obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 April 2022|access-date=10 April 2022))</ref> He proved to be an indifferent student and left school with few formal qualifications. In 1947 he began two years of [[Conscription in the United Kingdom#After 1945|national service]], at first with the [[East Yorkshire Regiment]],<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.qahh.org.uk/jack-higgins-biography/ |title=Jack Higgins biography |access-date=3 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914030237/http://www.qahh.org.uk/jack-higgins-biography/ |archive-date=14 September 2016  ))</ref> and later as a [[non-commissioned officer]] of the [[Blues and Royals|Royal Horse Guards Regiment]] of the [[Household Cavalry]]<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.householdcavalry.net/history/4587346307 |title=The Household Cavalry |access-date=23 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223212436/http://www.householdcavalry.net/history/4587346307 |archive-date=23 February 2015 |url-status=dead  ))</ref> doing security work on the [[East Germany|East German]] border.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.midsussextimes.co.uk/news/eagle-has-landed-author-jack-higgins-offers-charity-nights-in-west-sussex-1-7202553|title=Eagle Has Landed author Jack Higgins offers charity nights in West Sussex))((Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes ))</ref><ref name="guardian"/>

After leaving the army, he returned to education at Beckett Park teacher training college in Leeds and studied for a BSc [[sociology]] degree as a [[London School of Economics]] external student, taking his finals in Bradford in 1961.<ref name="Guardian2022" /> By day, he was working as a driver and labourer at night. He chose the university for its "history of nonconformism".<ref name="guardian"/> He received his third-class degree after three years of study.<ref name="guardian"/> After getting a teaching qualification, he started teaching at Allerton Grange Comprehensive School. He accepted a job lecturing in social psychology and criminology.<ref name="guardian"/> He taught liberal studies at [[Leeds Beckett University|Leeds Polytechnic]] and education at James Graham College, which became part of Leeds Polytechnic in 1976.

==Career==
((More citations needed section|date=April 2022))
In 1959, Higgins began writing novels.<ref name="guardian"/> One of his aliases was James Graham. The growing success of his early work allowed him to take time off from his teaching, which he quit eventually to become a full-time novelist.

Patterson's early novels, using his own name (as "Harry Patterson") as well as the pseudonyms James Graham, Martin Fallon, and Hugh Marlowe, are thrillers that typically feature hardened, cynical heroes, ruthless villains, and dangerous locales. Patterson published thirty-five such novels (sometimes 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 notable among his early work for their vividly described settings ([[Greenland]], the Channel Islands, and Belfast, respectively) and offbeat plots.

Patterson began using the pseudonym Jack Higgins during the late 1960s; his first minor bestsellers were published during the early 1970s, two contemporary thrillers ''The Savage Day'' and ''[[A Prayer for the Dying]]'',<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.harpercollins.ca/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=50000405&displayType=interview|title=HarperCollins Canada|first=World|last=Archipelago|website=www.harpercollins.ca|access-date=29 March 2011|archive-date=3 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203115217/https://www.harpercollins.ca/author/authorExtra.aspx%3FauthorID%3D50000405%26displayType%3Dinterview/|url-status=dead))</ref> but it was the publication of his thirty-sixth book, ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]],'' in 1975, that made Higgins' reputation. Its plot concerns a German commando unit sent into England to kidnap [[Winston Churchill]]. The main character is arguably an Irish gunman and poet, [[Liam Devlin]]. Higgins followed ''The Eagle Has Landed'' with a series of thrillers, including several (''Touch The Devil'', ''Confessional'', ''[[The Eagle Has Flown]]'') featuring the character Devlin.

The third phase of Patterson's career began with the publication of ''Eye of the Storm'' in 1992, a fictionalised retelling of [[Downing Street mortar attack|an unsuccessful mortar attack]] on Prime Minister [[John Major]], by a ruthless young Irish gunman-philosopher named [[Sean Dillon (Jack Higgins character)|Sean Dillon]], hired by an [[Iraq]]i millionaire. Cast as the main character for the next series of novels (22 out of 43 published between 1992 and 2017), it is apparent that Dillon is in many ways an amalgamation of Patterson's previous heroes—Chavasse with his flair for languages, Nick Miller's familiarity with martial arts and jazz keyboard skills, Simon Vaughan's Irish roots, facility with firearms and the cynicism that comes with assuming the responsibility of administering a justice unavailable through a civilised legal system.

==Personal life and death==
Higgins met Amy Hewitt while both were studying at the London School of Economics.<ref name="people"/> They were married in 1958, soon after he received a £75<ref name="guardian"/> advance for his first novel—"the biggest wedding present we could have had."<ref name="people"/> They had four children: Sarah (born 1960), Ruth (born 1962), Sean (born 1965), and Hannah (born 1974).<ref name="people"/><ref name="jh-confessional"/> Their daughter Sarah Patterson authored the novel ''The Distant Summer'' (1976).<ref name="sp-distant"/> The marriage ended in 1984. In 1985, he married his second wife, Denise Palmer, who was a contemporary of [[Theresa May]] at [[St Hugh's College, Oxford]].<ref>((Cite news |last=Mendick |first=Robert |date=2016-07-16 |title=Theresa May: the highest achiever of all in the starry, Oxford University geography class of ’74 |language=en-GB |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/16/theresa-may-the-highest-achiever-of-all-in-the-starry-oxford-uni/ |access-date=2023-07-22 |issn=0307-1235))</ref> 

Higgins died at his home in [[Jersey]],<ref name="guardian"/><ref name="wb-interview-87"/> on 9 April 2022, at the age of 92.<ref name="Guardian-Obit">((cite news |last1=Ripley |first1=Mike |title=Jack Higgins obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/10/jack-higgins-obituary |access-date=10 April 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=10 April 2022 |language=en))</ref><ref name="JEvP-Obit">((cite news |title=Author Jack Higgins dies aged 92 |url=https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2022/04/09/author-jack-higgins-dies-aged-92/ |access-date=10 April 2022 |work=[[Jersey Evening Post]] |date=9 April 2022))</ref><ref name="Telegraph-Obit">((cite news |title=Jack Higgins, author who shot to worldwide fame with his novel The Eagle Has Landed – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/04/10/jack-higgins-author-shot-worldwide-fame-novel-eagle-has-landed/ |access-date=10 April 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=10 April 2022))</ref>

==Bibliography==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
|-
! width="3%!| N°
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Title<ref name="scintilla"/>
! width="15%"| Writing as
! width="15%"| Featuring
! width="15%"| Publisher
! width="25%" class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
| 1
| 1959
| ''Sad Wind from the Sea''
| Harry Patterson
| Mark Hagen
| John Long
| 
|-
| 2
| 1960
| ''Cry of the Hunter''
| Harry Patterson
| Martin Fallon
| John Long
| Martin Fallon Book 1
|-
| 3
| 1961
| ''The Thousand Faces of Night''
| Harry Patterson
| Hugh Marlow
| John Long
| 
|-
| 4
| 1962
| ''Comes the Dark Stranger''
| Harry Patterson
| Martin Shane
| John Long
| 
|-
| 5
| 1962
| ''Hell Is Too Crowded''
| Harry Patterson
| Matthew Brady
| John Long
| 
|-
| 6
| 1962
| ''The Testament of Caspar Schultz''
| Martin Fallon
| Paul Chavasse
| Abelard-Schuman
| Paul Chavasse Book 1<br/>Revised and re-released in 2006 as ''The Bormann Testament''
|-
| 7
| 1963
| ''The Dark Side of the Island''
| Harry Patterson
| Hugh Lomax
| Fawcett
| 
|-
| 8
| 1963
| ''Pay the Devil''
| Henry Patterson
| Clay Fitzgerald
| Barrie & Rockliff
| Revised and re-released in 2000 under the same name
|-
| 9
| 1963
| ''Seven Pillars to Hell''
| Hugh Marlowe
| Gavin Kane
| Abelard-Schuman
| Revised and re-released in 1994 as ''Sheba''
|-
| 10
| 1963
| ''Year of the Tiger''
| Martin Fallon
| Paul Chavasse
| Abelard-Schuman
| Paul Chavasse Book 2<br/>Revised and re-released in 1996 under the same name
|-
| 11
| 1964
| ''Passage by Night''
| Hugh Marlowe
| Harry Manning
| Abelard-Schuman
| 
|-
| 12
| 1964
| ''A Phoenix in the Blood''
| Henry Patterson
| Jay Williams
|Barry & Rockliff
| 
|-
| 13
| 1964
| ''Thunder at Noon''
| Harry Patterson
| John Dillinger
| 
| Revised and re-released in 1983 as ''Dillinger''
|-
| 14
| 1964
| ''[[Wrath of the Lion]]''
| Harry Patterson
| Neil Mallory
| 
| 
|-
| 15
| 1965
| ''[[The Graveyard Shift (novel)|The Graveyard Shift]]''
| Harry Patterson
| Nick Miller
| 
| Nick Miller Book 1
|-
| 16
| 1965
| ''The Keys of Hell''
| Martin Fallon
| Paul Chavasse
| 
| Paul Chavasse Book 3<br/>Revised and re-released in 2002 under the same name
|-
| 17
| 1966
| ''A Candle for the Dead''
| Hugh Marlowe
| Sean Rogan
| 
| Revised and re-released the same year as ''The Violent Enemy''
|-
| 18
| 1966
| ''The Iron Tiger''
| Jack Higgins
| Jack Drummond
| 
| 
|-
| 19
| 1966
| ''Midnight Never Comes''
| Martin Fallon
| Paul Chavasse
| 
| Paul Chavasse Book 4
|-
| 20
| 1967
| ''Brought in Dead''
| Harry Patterson
| Nick Miller
| 
| Nick Miller Book 2
|-
| 21
| 1967
| ''Dark Side of the Street''
| Martin Fallon
| Paul Chavasse
| 
| Paul Chavasse Book 5
|-
| 22
| 1968
| ''East of Desolation''
| Jack Higgins
| Joe Martin
| Berkley
| 
|-
| 23
| 1968
| ''Hell Is Always Today''
| Harry Patterson
| Nick Miller
| 
| Nick Miller Book 3
|-
| 24
| 1969
| ''[[A Fine Night for Dying]]''
| Martin Fallon
| Paul Chavasse
| 
| Paul Chavasse Book 6
|-
| 25
| 1969
| ''In the Hour Before Midnight''
| Jack Higgins
| Stacy Wyatt
| 
| Revised and re-released the same year as ''The Sicilian Heritage''
|-
| 26
| 1970
| ''A Game for Heroes''
| James Graham
| Owen Morgan
| 
| 
|-
| 27
| 1970
| ''Night Judgement at Sinos''
| Jack Higgins
| Jack Savage
| 
| 
|-
| 28
| 1971
| ''[[The Last Place God Made]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sam Hannah
| 
| 
|-
| 29
| 1971
| ''Toll for the Brave''
| Jack Higgins
| Ellis Jackson
| 
| 
|-
| 30
| 1971
| ''The Wrath of God''
| James Graham
| Emmet Kogh
| 
| 
|-
| 31
| 1972
| ''The Khufra Run''
| James Graham
| Jack Nelson
| 
| 
|-
| 32
| 1972
| ''The Savage Day''
| Jack Higgins
| Simon Vaughan
| Holt
| Simon Vaughan Book 1 
|-
| 33
| 1973
| ''A Prayer for the Dying''
| Jack Higgins
| Martin Fallon
| Holt
| Martin Fallon Book 2
|-
| 34
| 1974
| ''The Run to Morning''
| James Graham
| Oliver Grant
| 
| Revised and re-released the same year as ''Bloody Passage''
|-
| 35
| 1975
| ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]]''
| Jack Higgins
| [[Liam Devlin]]
| Holt
| Liam Devlin Book 1
|-
| 36
| 1976
| ''[[Storm Warning (Higgins novel)|Storm Warning]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Paul Gericke
| Holt
| 
|-
| 37
| 1977
| ''The Valhalla Exchange''
| Jack Higgins
| Hamilton Canning
| Stein and Day
| 
|-
| 38
| 1978
| ''Day of Judgment''
| Jack Higgins
| Simon Vaughan
| Holt
| Simon Vaughan Book 2
|-
| 39
| 1979
| ''To Catch a King''
| Harry Patterson
| [[Walter Schellenberg]]
| Stein and Day
| The final novel to be published under his own name, and not the Jack Higgins pseudonym.
|-
| 40
| 1980
| ''Solo''
| Jack Higgins
| Asa Morgan
| Stein and Day
| Asa Morgan Book 1<br/>Revised and re-released the same year as ''The Cretan Lover''
|-
| 41
| 1981
| ''Luciano's Luck''
| Jack Higgins
| Harry Carter
| Stein and Day
| 
|-
| 42
| 1982
| ''[[Touch the Devil]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Liam Devlin
| Stein and Day
| Liam Devlin Book 2
|-
| 43
| 1983
| ''Exocet''
| Jack Higgins
| Tony Villiers
| Stein and Day
| Tony Villiers Book 1
|-
| 44
| 1985
| ''Confessional''
| Jack Higgins
| Liam Devlin
| Stein and Day
| Liam Devlin Book 3
|-
| 45
| 1986
| ''[[Night of the Fox (novel)|Night of the Fox]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Harry Martineau
| Simon & Schuster
| Dougal Munro and Jack Carter Book 1
|-
| 46
| 1989
| ''Memoirs of a Dance Hall Romeo''
| Jack Higgins
| Oliver Shaw
| Simon & Schuster
| 
|-
| 47
| 1989
| ''A Season in Hell''
| Jack Higgins
| Tony Villiers
| Simon & Schuster
| Tony Villiers Book 2
|-
| 48
| 1990
| ''[[Cold Harbour (Book)|Cold Harbour]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Craig Osbourn
| Simon & Schuster
| Dougal Munro and Jack Carter Book 2
|-
| 49
| 1990
| ''[[The Eagle Has Flown]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Liam Devlin
| Simon & Schuster
| Liam Devlin Book 4
|-
| 50
| 1992
| ''Eye of the Storm''
| Jack Higgins
| [[Sean Dillon (character)|Sean Dillon]]
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 1<br/>Revised and re-released in 1996 as ''Midnight Man''
|-
| 51
| 1993
| ''[[Thunder Point]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 2
|-
| 52
| 1994
| ''On Dangerous Ground''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 3
|-
| 53
| 1995
| ''[[Angel of Death (novel)|Angel of Death]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 4
|-
| 54
| 1995
| ''The Morgan Score''
| Jack Higgins
| Asa Morgan
| Excerpt (chapter 7) of "Solo"; Published as a short story in "Great Irish Tales Of Horror"
| 
|-
| 55
| 1996
| ''Drink with the Devil''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 5
|-
| 56
| 1997
| ''[[The President's Daughter (Higgins book)|The President's Daughter]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 6
|-
| 57
| 1998
| ''[[Flight of Eagles]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Max and Harry Kelso
| Putnam
| Dougal Munro and Jack Carter Book 3
|-
| 58
| 1999
| ''The White House Connection''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 7
|-
| 59
| 2000
| ''[[Day of Reckoning (novel)|Day of Reckoning]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 8
|-
| 60
| 2001
| ''Edge of Danger''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 9
|-
| 61
| 2002
| ''[[Midnight Runner]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 10
|-
| 62
| 2003
| ''Bad Company''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 11
|-
| 63
| 2004
| ''Dark Justice''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 12
|-
| 64
| 2005
| ''Without Mercy''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 13
|-
| 65
| 2006
| ''Sure Fire''
| Jack Higgins
| The Chance Twins
| Putnam
| The Chance Twins Book 1<br/>Co-written with Justin Richards
|-
| 66
| 2007
| ''[[The Killing Ground (novel)|The Killing Ground]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 14
|-
| 67
| 2007
| ''[[Rough Justice (novel)|Rough Justice]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 15
|-
| 68
| 2008
| ''Death Run''
| Jack Higgins
| The Chance Twins 
| Putnam
| The Chance Twins Book 2<br/>Co-written with Justin Richards
|-
| 69
| 2009
| ''[[A Darker Place]]''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 16
|-
| 70
| 2009
| ''First Strike''
| Jack Higgins
| The Chance Twins
| Putnam
| The Chance Twins Book 3<br/>Co-written with Justin Richards
|-
| 71
| 2009
| ''Sharp Shot''
| Jack Higgins
| The Chance Twins
| Putnam
| The Chance Twins Book 4<br/>Co-written with Justin Richards
|-
| 72
| 2009
| ''The Wolf at the Door''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 17
|-
| 73
| 2010
| ''The Judas Gate''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 18
|-
| 74
| 2012
| ''A Devil is Waiting''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 19
|-
| 75
| 2013
| ''The Death Trade''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 20
|-
| 76
| 2014
| ''Rain on the Dead''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 21
|-
| 77
| 2016
| ''The Midnight Bell''
| Jack Higgins
| Sean Dillon
| Putnam
| Sean Dillon Book 22
|}

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Title
! width="15%"| Writing as
! width="15%"| Director
! width="15%"| Starring
! width="25%" class="unsortable"| Notes
|-
| 1967
| ''[[The Violent Enemy]]''
| Hugh Marlowe
| [[Don Sharp]]
| Tom Bell
| From the novel ''A Candle for the Dead''
|-
| 1972
| ''[[The Wrath of God]]''
| James Graham
| [[Ralph Nelson]]
| [[Robert Mitchum]]
| 
|-
| 1976
| ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|The Eagle Has Landed]]''
| Jack Higgins
| [[John Sturges]]
| [[Michael Caine]]
| 
|-
| 1984
| ''[[To Catch a King]]''
| Harry Patterson
| [[Clive Donner]]
| [[Robert Wagner]]
| Television film
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| 1987
| ''[[A Prayer for the Dying]]''
| Jack Higgins
| [[Mike Hodges]]
| [[Mickey Rourke]]
| 
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| 1989
| ''[[Confessional (TV series)|Confessional]]''
| Jack Higgins
| [[Gordon Flemyng]]
| [[Keith Carradine]]
| Television series, 4 episodes 
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Night of the Fox]]''
| Jack Higgins
| [[Charles Jarrott]]
| [[George Peppard]]
| Television film
|-
| 1996
| ''On Dangerous Ground''
| Jack Higgins
| [[Lawrence Gordon Clark]]
| [[Rob Lowe]]
| Television film
|-
| 1996
| ''[[The Windsor Protocol]]''
| Jack Higgins
| [[George Mihalka]]
| [[Kyle MacLachlan]]
| Television film
|-
| 1997
| ''Midnight Man''
| Jack Higgins
| Lawrence Gordon Clark
| Rob Lowe
| Television film, from the novel ''Eye of the Storm''
|-
| 1998
| ''Thunder Point''
| Jack Higgins
| George Mihalka
| Kyle MacLachlan
| Television film
|}

==References==
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<ref name="guardian">((cite news|last=Crace |first=John |title=A Life in Writing: Jack Higgins |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 July 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jul/31/jack-higgins-life-harry-patterson |access-date=24 September 2014))</ref>

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<ref name="harper">((cite web|title=Author Interview: Jack Higgins |publisher=HarperCollins |url=http://www.harpercollins.ca/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=interview&authorID=50000405 |access-date=24 September 2014))</ref>
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<ref name="jh-confessional">((cite book|last=Higgins |first=Jack |title=Confessional |publisher=Open Road Media |year=2010 |isbn=978-1480479449))</ref>

<ref name="people">((cite journal|last=Hauptfuhrer |first=Fred |title=The Eagle Has Landed Jack Higgins in a High Tax Bracket ... |journal=People |volume=7 |issue=2 |publisher=Time, Inc. |location=New York |date=17 January 1977 |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067337,00.html |access-date=25 September 2014))</ref>

<ref name="sp-distant">((cite book|last=Patterson |first=Sarah |title=The Distant Summer |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |year=1976 |isbn=978-0671222574))</ref>

<ref name="scintilla">((cite web|title=Jack Higgins Homepage: Books |publisher=Scintilla |url=http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~gert/higgins/html/booklist.2.html |access-date=25 September 2014))</ref>

<ref name="nytimes">((cite web|last=Canby |first=Vincent |title=The Eagle Has Landed (1976) |work=The New York Times |date=26 March 1977 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A07E0DD113BE334BC4E51DFB566838C669EDE |access-date=25 September 2014))</ref>

<ref name="wb-interview-87">((cite web|last=Swaim |first=Don |title=Audio Interview with Jack Higgins |publisher=Wired for Books |date=16 January 1987 |url=http://www.wiredforbooks.org/jackhiggins/ |access-date=14 October 2014))</ref>
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==External links==
* ((IMDb name|0383396|Jack Higgins))
* ((discogs artist|Jack Higgins (2)))

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