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The Eagle has Landed

  • 382 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1975
  • 72 editions

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1 About this book

In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin.

  • Thrillers
  • Espionage
  • Thrillers, espionage
  • World War II
  • Secret service
  • Missing persons
  • Germany

2 About Henry Patterson

1929–2022

James Graham is a pseudonym of Henry Patterson, writer of thrillers better known by another of his pen name, Jack Higgins.

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