Nothing Lasts Forever (1979 novel)
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| Author | Roderick Thorp |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Released | 1979 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-393-01249-2 |
| Preceded by | The Detective |
Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp.
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[edit] Summary
Nothing Lasts Forever is a sequel to Thorp's 1966 novel The Detective. It follows Detective Joe Leland, who is visiting the Klaxon Oil Corporation's headquarters in Los Angeles, where his daughter works. While he is visiting, a German terrorist team led by Anton "Tony" Gruber takes over the building. Leland remains undetected and fights off the terrorists one by one.
[edit] Adaptions
Nothing Lasts Forever was adapted in 1988 as the film Die Hard. Despite the changing of certain characters' names (from Joe Leland to John McClane and Tony Gruber to Hans Gruber), the movie is fairly faithful to the novel. McClane communicates to the terrorists via walkie-talkie and commits some of the same acts of sabotage that Leland does in the novel.
[edit] References
- Thorp, Roderick (1979). Nothing Lasts Forever. ISBN 0-393-01249-2.
[edit] External links
- Die Hard on Yahoo!'s Database
- The Detective at the Internet Movie Database
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