The Eagle Has Flown (Liam Devlin #4) by Jack Higgins

The Eagle Has Landed, published in 1975, was a publishing sensation and is regarded as one of the great war stories of its time. It introduced one of the great anti-heroes of modern fiction in Liam Devlin - a legend in his own time.

The Eagle Has Flown reintroduces Liam Devlin, scholar, poet, gunman, soldier of the IRA.

Colonel Kurt Steiner, the German paratroop officer gunned down during his abortive assassination attempt on Winston Churchill, has survived on the operating table and is held a secret prisoner in the Tower of London. Liam Devlin, on the run from Nazi Germany, languishes in Lisbon in the vain hope that he may obtain passage to America, when he is approached by General Walter Schellenberg of the SS with a startling challenge: to effect the escape of Kurt Steiner from the Tower of London and to return with him to Germany and thereby bring about the most startling coup of the entire war. But first Devlin must put his head in the noose again and return to Berlin to face again his most hated adversary, Heinrich Himmler...

The sweep of the story takes Devlin from Berlin to the underworld of London's East End, a story peopled by unforgettable characters: Asa Ryan, American fighter pilot trapped in the George Washington Legion of the SS, Brigadier Dougal Munro of British Intelligence, Jack and Eric Carver, the two most notorious gangsters in London's underworld. These and others populate a novel which millions have waited for. They will not be disappointed.

The Eagle Has Flown, like its predecessor, is destined to become another publishing sensation.