Mexico 1922 - a place and time when life was cheap and survival was for those who fought dirtiest. And when it came to dirty fighting, there were few men more skilled than Emmet Heogh, the young Irish gunman, and Oliver van Horne, the "priest" with a Thompson sub-machine gun in his Gladstone bag.
Jack Higgins lived in Belfast till the age of twelve. Leaving school at fifteen, he spent three years with the Royal Horse Guards, and was later a teacher and university lecturer. His thirty-sixth novel, The Eagle Has Landed (1975), turned him into an international bestselling author, and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into sixty languages. Many have been made into successful films. He died in 2022, at his home in Jersey, surrounded by his family.