Midnight Runner

Since The Eagle Has Landed-one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time-every novel Jack Higgins has written, including his most recent works, The White House Connection, Day of Reckoning, and Edge of Danger, has become an international best-seller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, among them The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. Higgins, who lived in Belfast until he was twelve, had several close calls with bombs and gunfire at an early age. After leaving school at fifteen, he served three years with the Royal Horse Guards in Eastern Europe during the cold war. Subsequently, he was a circus roustabout, a factory worker, a truck driver, and a laborer, before entering college at age twenty-seven. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands.Higgins, Jack is the author of 'Midnight Runner' with ISBN 9780399148330 and ISBN 0399148337.