If you told me the only way to get out of being stabbed in the throat was to get kicked in the groin, I'd take the kick any day of the week. I'd beg for that kick.
The Eagle Has Flown by Jack Higgins, November 1, 1991, Pocket edition, Mass Market Paperback in English
Since the publication of The Eagle Has Landed, every novel he has written has become an international bestseller, including Day of Reckoning. He has had simultaneous #1 bestsellers in hardcover and paperback and has been published in thirty-eight languages worldwide.