Author: Jack Higgins

Cites

• Sun Tzu (1)
  • IN: The Killing Ground (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now the field of battle is a land of standing corpses; those determined to die will live; those who hope to escape with their lives will die.
    FROM: Wu'Chi (The Art of War), (-450), Book, China
• Koran (2)
  • IN: Dark Justice (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One sword is worth ten thousand words.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
  • IN: The President’s Daughter (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There is more truth in one sword than in ten thousand words.
    FROM: The Koran, (632), Religious Text, NULL
• NULL (5)
  • IN: Thunder Point (1993) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Whether Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and Secretary to Adolf Hitler, the most powerful man in Germany after the Führer, actually escaped from the Führer Bunker in Berlin in the early hours of May 2, 1945, or died trying to cross the Weidendammer Bridge has always been a matter of conjecture. Josef Stalin believed him to be alive; Jacob Glas, Bormann’s chauffeur, swore that he saw him in Munich after the war; and Eichmann told the Israelis he was still alive in 1960. Simon Wiesenthal, the greatest Nazi hunter of them all, always insisted he was alive, and then there was a Spaniard who had served in the German SS who insisted that Bormann had left Norway in a U-boat bound for South America at the very end of the war…
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], Germany
  • IN: Eye Of The Storm (1992) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The winds of heaven are blowing. Implement all that is on the table. May God be with you.
    FROM: Coded message, Iraq Radio, Baghdad January 1991, (1991), Conversation, Iraq
  • IN: Keys of Hell (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There are no Keys to Hell- the doors are open to all men.
    FROM: Albanian Proverb, (None), Saying, Albania
  • IN: The Wolf at the Door (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Wolf at the door is your greatest Danger and not only in Winter.
    FROM: Russian Proverb, (None), Proverb, Russia
  • IN: The Death Trade (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Above all things, cherish life while you can, for death is serious business.
    FROM: Sufi Saying, (None), Saying, NULL
• Oliver Wendell Holmes (1)
  • IN: Angel Of Death (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy except force… It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
    FROM: "Natural Law", (1918), Essay, US
• William Blake (1)
  • IN: Wrath of the Lion (1964) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
    FROM: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", (1793), Poem, UK
• Wu Ch'i (1)
  • IN: The Eagle Has Landed (1975) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Now the field of battle is a land of standing corpses; those determined to die will live; those who hope to escape with their lives will die.
    FROM: Art of War, (-450), Book, China