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According to the Midcontinent Public Library and Based on the Book, more than 1,200 books, novels, short stories, and plays have been made into English language feature films—and that's just since 1980! In fact, all but two of this year's Academy Award Best Picture nominees are based on books including The Descendants, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Moneyball, and War Horse.  

Of course it's no secret that Hollywood producers and bestselling authors don't always see eye-to-eye when it comes to writing the all-important screenplay adaptation; but with patience, respect, and determination, success—and maybe ...

This photograph shows Jack Higgins at a graveyard in Jersey, in the Channel Islands. Jack Higgins was born Harry Patterson in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, but was raised in a religious and politically violent region of Northern Ireland by his mother . He joined the British Army as a young man, and served for two years before completing a degree in sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. While working as a professor, he began his writing career, writing under various pen names as well as his own name.

Between 1959 and 1974, he published thirty-five thriller ...

Open Road Media announces the ebook publication of The Eagle Has Landed from internationally bestselling author Jack Higgins. Originally published in 1975, and later adapted into a movie starring Michael Caine, The Eagle Has Landed recounts Heinrich Himmler’s audacious plan to kidnap Churchill on British soil. 

New content for reviewers and readers includes:

•  Review copies via NetGalley at www.netgalley.com

•  Behind-the-scenes author commentary & videos at www.openroadmedia.com

•  Illustrated biography in each ebook, including never-before-seen photographs from Higgins’s private collection.

 

 

AVAILABLE 3/29/2011

Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Kobo Books, Overdrive, and Sony Reader Store

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