Library and charity book staple Jack Higgins has died.
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- Mar 2008
- 9762
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Bizarrely Look North reported this as 'Newcastle-born...' thriller writer...
Since they'd never claimed him before, I looked up his early life. About the same as 'Dumbarton-born David Byrne' in the Daily Record of my youth, then.
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I must have read The Eagle has Landed about 3 or 4 times in my teens. It was strange how successfully he made the German infiltrators the heroes of the book.
I never read the sequel and I don't think I've read any of his other (looks up list) 84 books. (84?)
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I read quite a few of his books in my early teens. My grandmother was a member of the Book of the Month Club, or something similar, so had a steady supply to see me through the long holidays in the back end of nowhere (as Pembrokeshire seemed at the time). His heroes were often IRA men, gangsters and the like, supplied with explanations of why they were an old fashioned, honourable variety of same rather than the nasty modern kind that you might see on the news. He produced some reasonable page turners if functional entertainment was your level of expectation from books.
I picked a late (21st century) effort of his up from a station book table once out of curiosity and it was shockingly bad, not even a competent retread of his earlier stuff.
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