The Eagle Has Flown

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Jack Higgins. The Eagle Has Flown

The Eagle Has Flown

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For my motherHenrietta Higgins Bell

Dedication

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When I turned Fox was sitting on the end of the table in the corner, lighting another cigarette. ‘As I said, we found your name in her handbag.’

It was then, as if something had gone click in my head, that I came back to reality. Hit and run – a serious offence, but when had it merited the attention of a Detective Chief Superintendent? And wasn’t there something about Fox with his saturnine face and dark, watchful eyes? This was no ordinary policeman. I smelled Special Branch.

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