Distributer HarperCollins said that Higgins kicked the bucket at his home on the English Channel island of Jersey encompassed by his loved ones.
Conceived Henry Patterson in Newcastle, England, in July 1929, Higgins served in the military prior to concentrating on human science at the London School of Economics. He turned into an educator in the northern city of Leeds and an essayist in his extra time, with books that sold unobtrusively beginning in the last part of the 1950s.
That changed with the 1975 distribution of The Eagle Has Landed, about a made-up World War II plot to hijack British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. In a 2010 meeting with The Guardian, Higgins related a critical call from his bookkeeper.
“He asked me what I needed to escape my composition,” Higgins said. “I answered that I wasn’t quite certain, prior to adding as a joke it would be great to make 1,000,000 when I resigned. He then said: ‘Well you’re a ridiculous moron. Since you’ve recently procured that much this week. So the thing would you say you will do about it?'”
He was informed to leave England on the grounds concerning 1970s tax assessment rates and settled with his family in Jersey.
The Eagle Has Landed turned out to be more well-known after the 1976 film variation was delivered. Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, and Robert Duvall were among the stars of the eponymously named film that was a film industry achievement.
In an explanation, HarperCollins CEO Charlie Redmayne said Higgins’ demise denoted “the conclusion of a significant time period.”
“I’ve really loved Jack Higgins for longer than I can recollect. He was an exemplary spine-chiller author: natural, extreme, tenacious,” he said.
“The Eagle Has Landed and his other Liam Devlin books, his later Sean Dillon series, thus numerous others were and remain totally unputdownable.”
Patterson composed almost 80 books, most under the alias Jack Higgins. Other Higgins titles incorporated The Eagle Has Flown, Angel of Death, Day of Reckoning, and A Darker Place.
As indicated by his distributer’s site, the books have sold in excess of 250 million duplicates and been converted into many dialects.
His survivors incorporate his better half, Denise, and four youngsters from his past marriage.
