Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall were among the stars of the 1976 film adaptation.
“He asked me what I wanted to get out of my writing,” Higgins said. “I replied that I wasn’t really sure, before adding as a joke it would be nice to make a million by the time I retired. He then said: ‘Well you’re a bloody fool. Because you’ve just earned that much this week. So what are you going to do about it?'”
He was advised to leave England because of 1970s taxation rates and settled with his family on Jersey.became more popular after the 1976 film adaptation was released. Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall were among the stars of the eponymously named movie that was a box office success. In a statement, HarperCollins chief executive Charlie Redmayne said Higgins’ death marked “the end of an era.”
“I’ve been a fan of Jack Higgins for longer than I can remember. He was a classic thriller writer: instinctive, tough, relentless,” he said.and his other Liam Devlin books, his later Sean Dillon series, and so many others were and remain absolutely unputdownable.” Patterson wrote nearly 80 books, most under the pseudonym of Jack Higgins. Other Higgins titles includedAccording to his publisher’s website, the novels have sold more than 250 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages.THR Newsletters
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