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Walter Herman Wager[1] (September 4, 1924 - July 11, 2004)[1] was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist. The movie Telefon, starring Charles Bronson, was inspired by his novel of the same name. His book 58 Minutes was adapted into Die Hard 2. Wager was best known as an author of crime and espionage thrillers. His novel Viper Three (Macmillan, 1971) was released as Twilight's Last Gleaming, with Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark, in 1977. That same year, his spy novelo Telefon (Macmillan, 1975) was adapted as the same-name movie starring Charles Bronson and Lee Remick. Wager's airport-based thriller 58 Minutes (1987) became the basis for the 1990 action film Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis. Additionally, Wager wrote a number of original novels in the 1960s under the pseudonym "John Tiger" that were based on the TV series I Spy and Mission: Impossible. He also wrote the farce My Side, by King Kong as Told to Walter Wager, published by Macmillan in 1976. His series Blue Leader, Blue Moon, and Blue Murder featured tough Beverly Hills private detective Alison Gordon.[3] As one of several writers using the pseudonym Lee Davis Willoughby,[6] Wager also wrote the historical novels The Wildcatters and The Caribbeans.[3][7] (source: Wikipedia)


Genre: Thriller