In Mekong Delta, Jake Cazalet, US Special Forces Officer, rescues a woman. Many years later, someone is using the discovery of what really happened to blackmail him - a move which threatens the world, because Cazalet is now President of the United States.

Jack Higgins was a soldier and then a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. The Eagle Has Landed turned him into an international bestselling author and his novels have since sold over 250 million copies and been translated into fifty-five languages. Many of them have also been made into successful films.