In Paris, a Cambridge University student is murdered. When his body arrives in England it will be stuffed with pure heroin....On a training field used by Britain's elite Special Air Service, a young sergeant hones his killing skills to a fever pitch....In New York's finest restaurant, a beautiful woman shakes hands with the Vice President. Tomorrow, she will enter a world of murder, terrorism, and treachery. From London to Sicily and Northern Ireland, Wall Street lawyer Sarah Talbot and brutal ex-Special Services man Sean Egan are heading into the heart of Europe's most violent underworld -- for one sweet moment of revenge and...

Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.