A Little Friendly Orgy and other porn stories have been sold as work by the author of The Eagle Has LandedReaders fancying a journey into the world of the bestselling thriller author Jack Higgins may be getting a different kind of thrill, courtesy of another writer selling erotic novels under the same name.Higgins, the pen name for the UK author Harry Patterson, is one of the world's best known writers, most famous for The Eagle Has Landed, which centres on a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. But fans looking for a new Higgins thriller to enjoy on their Kindle have been stumbling across an apparent new sideline for the international bestseller: a series of "erotic" ebooks with titles such as His Best Friend's Ex-Wife, His Boss's Wife and A Little Friendly Orgy.One of the ebooks, which are either self-published or released by "Dark Hole Press", and are available from Amazon UK and US, as well as iTunes and Barnes & Noble, even plays on the genre in which Higgins has made his name: Just The 3 Of Us is subtitled "The Passion of Three Secret Agent" [sic]. On Monday morning, all the titles came up on Higgins's Amazon page, and the page on Amazon UK for His Best Friend's Wife includes the biography for the better known Jack Higgins: "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 250m copies and been translated into 25 languages.... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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In January and February, ebooks were up 20.4 percent and downloadable audio was up 23.7 percent over 2020. The post AAP StatShot February Report: US Audiobooks and Ebooks Maintain Strength appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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