Jack Higgins
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| - | '''Stan Lauryssens''' (born 1946) is a [[Belgium|Belgian]] writer. He lives in Antwerp and London. | + | '''Jack Higgins''' (1929 – 2022) was a [[British author]]. He was a best-selling author of popular [[Thriller (genre)|thrillers]] and [[Spy fiction|espionage]] novels. His novel ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (novel)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' (1975) sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie [[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|of the same title]]. |
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| - | As a journalist in the 1970s and 1980s, Lauryssens travelled the world and interviewed [[Jack Higgins]] [[Harold Robbins]], [[Catherine Cookson]], [[Konsalik]], [[Thor Heyerdahl]], [[Charles de Gaulle]] and [[Andy Warhol]]. He had prolonged meetings with [[Hitler]]’s henchmen: [[Karl Dönitz]], Sir [[Oswald Mosley]], [[Leni Riefenstahl]], [[Adolf Eichmann]]’s family, and [[Otto Günsche]] and has written five books about the [[Nazis]]. | + | |
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| - | Lauryssens wrote the book ''Dalí and I'' about his experiences with the [[surrealist]] painter. Room 9 Entertainment in Hollywood bought film rights. Academy Award nominee [[Andrew Niccol]] rewrote the screenplay and will direct the film, entitled ''Dali & I: The Surreal Story''. Lauryssens will be played by [[Cillian Murphy]], with [[Al Pacino]] as Dalí. | + | |
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| - | His non-fiction books were serialised in ''The Mail on Sunday'' and are published in English, French, Italian and Polish and have gained cult status in Japan. His first thriller, ''Black Snow'', won him the Hercule Poirot Award 2002 for best crime fiction of the year, and was followed by ''Dead Corpses'' (2003) and ''Red Roses'' (2004), ''Deader Than Dead Too'' (2005), ''More than Naked'' (2005), ''No Time for Tears'' (2006)and "The Sooner You Die". Translation rights for "Dalí & I: The Surreal Story" have been sold in some 30 languages. The book is also out as an Amazon Kindle Edition and on CD, from Tantor Media. | + | |
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| - | Lauryssens is currently working on a memoir tentatively titled ''A Curry at Night and Sex on Sunday''. This story will recount his seven years as an outcast in an Indian family in the London suburbs that ended with him living for a couple of days in "cardboard city" under Waterloo Bridge. | + | |
| + | His 85 novels in total have [[sold more than]] 250 million copies and have been translated into 55 languages. | ||
| + | [[Liam Devlin]] was one of his recurring characters. | ||
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Jack Higgins (1929 – 2022) was a British author. He was a best-selling author of popular thrillers and espionage novels. His novel The Eagle Has Landed (1975) sold more than 50 million copies and was adapted into a successful 1976 movie of the same title.
His 85 novels in total have sold more than 250 million copies and have been translated into 55 languages.
Liam Devlin was one of his recurring characters.
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