Today’s crossword puzzle is a general knowledge clue: Jack Higgins’ 1980 thriller. For this specific crossword puzzle, we’ll attempt to determine the right solution. Using all the information gathered we will solve the clue “1980 Jack Higgins Thriller Novel”. It was last seen in the British General Knowledge Blockword.
A father’s quest for revenge leads him into a deadly game of cat and mouse with a veteran assassin.
The classic Jack Higgins thriller
Piano virtuoso John Mikali’s musical talents are matched only by his killer talent. The trail of bodies he left in his wake is proof of that. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing the scene of the crime, the woman’s father, a British army soldier, vows to avenge his daughter’s death.
Now the pair are locked in a deadly match, playing for the ultimate stake.
Article number: 323501105267
Year: 1980
Country/region of manufacture: USA
special properties: Dust jacket
Subject: Mystery, suspense
ISBN: 9780812827132
Year of publication: 1980
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Title of the book: Only
Writer: Jack Higgins
Editor: Madison Books, Incorporated
Gender: Fiction
Issue: Thriller / Spy, Mystery and Detective / General
Number of pages: 348 pages
Category: Books and magazines > Books
About 1980 Jack Higgins Thriller Novel Author
Jack Higgins is the most famous of Henry Patterson’s many pseudonyms. (Also see James Graham, Hugh Marlowe, Harry Patterson, and Martin Fallon.)
He is the chief New York Times coast bestselling author of more than 70 thrillers, consisting of The Eagle Has Landed out and The precious Wolf at the Door. Almost 250 million copies of his books have been sold all over the world.
Patterson was raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, despite being an English native from Newcastle upon Tyne. As a child, Patterson was a voracious reader, and he later admitted that his passion for reading fueled his creative drive to be a writer. The political and religious violence that was prevalent in Belfast at the time was also a part of his childhood there. Aged seven, Patterson was caught in a shooting while driving a tram, and later ended up in a Belfast cinema when it was bombed.
Although he escaped both attacks unscathed, the Troubles in Northern Ireland would later become a significant influence on his books, many of which feature the Irish Republican Army prominently. Patterson enlisted in the British Army and spent 2 years in the Household Cavalry, from the year of 1947 to 1949, stationed along the border with East Germany, after completing his high school and university education in Leeds, England. He was regarded as a sniper.
After his military service, Patterson obtained a BA in sociology from the London School of Economics, which led him to work as a professor at two English universities. James Graham Patterson started writing books in 1959 while he was a professor at James Graham College.
As her popularity grew, Patterson gave up teaching to write full-time. Since 1975, when Eagle Landed, an international bestseller that was eventually adapted into a movie starring Michael Caine was released, Patterson has routinely appeared on lists of the best-sellers. His books are heavily historical based and include notable figures such as John Dillinger, and often focus on major events in conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Patterson lived in Jersey, in the Channel Islands.