The Eagle Has Flown
First edition
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| Author | Jack Higgins |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | War, Thriller Novel |
| Publisher | Chapmans |
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Publication date
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1991 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 352 (hardcover edition) 356 (paperback edition) |
| ISBN | (hardcover edition) |
| OCLC | 60076919 |
The Eagle Has Flown is a book by Jack Higgins, first published in 1991. It is a quasi-sequel to The Eagle Has Landed.
Following the events in the previous novel, it is revealed that Kurt Steiner did not die after attempting to kill the fake Churchill, but was only wounded. German intelligence learns that, after recovery in a Norfolk RAF hospital, he was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London.
Brigadier Dougal Munro and Captain Jack Carter (recurring characters in several novels by Higgins) of the Special Operations Executive, arrange for Steiner to be relocated to a 'safe house' in a St Mary's Priory in Wapping, where he can be held whilst recuperating from surgery. Munro makes sure, via double agents at the Spanish Embassies in London and Berlin, that German intelligence find out about Steiner's survival. They hope to catch the German agents attempting a rescue, especially IRA gunman Liam Devlin, in their net.
Learning of Steiner's survival, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler summons SS Gen. Walter Schellenberg, the chief of intelligence of the Ausland-SD to a gothic castle. Giving Schellenberg the same authority he'd given Max Radl, Himmler orders him to launch an operation to rescue Steiner. Himmler hopes to present Steiner to Hitler as a propaganda coup for the SS that will greatly embarrass Abwehr chief Wilhelm Canaris, who had originally opposed Steiner's operation. Schellenberg manages to track down Liam Devlin, who is working in a bar in Lisbon whilst trying to earn enough money for passage to America. Offering him £25,000, £5,000 more than he received for the first mission, Devlin agrees to Schellenberg's offer.
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