In 1975 Jack Higgins's novel The Eagle Has Landed, which imagines a Nazi plot to kidnap Winston Churchill during World War II, spent thirty-five weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. That's twenty-six more weeks than it took Higgins to write it. Watch Higgins talk about how he composed the classic novel that reinvented the spy thriller genre and catapulted him to international fame.
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