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Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 action thriller novel by American author Roderick Thorp, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective. The novel is mostly known through its 1988 film adaptation Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. In 2012, the book was brought back into print and released as an ebook for the 24th anniversary of the film.
- Roderick Thorp
- 1979
Jan 1, 2001 · Nothing Lasts Forever was first published in 1979. Die Hard came out in 1988. The book focuses on Joseph Leland, a World War II veteran, retired cop, private detective, terrorism expert, and a security consultant, who just gave up flying his own place seven years earlier.
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Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 thriller novel by American author Roderick Thorp, who wrote it as a sequel to his popular novel The Detective, which was made into a movie starring Frank Sinatra. After Sinatra declined the role, the script was made into a standalone story which was made into the film Die Hard.
Jan 1, 1994 · Nothing Lasts Forever. Roderick Thorp. 3.87. 33,247 ratings1,071 reviews. Three young doctors -- their hopes, their dreams, their unexpected desires...Dr. Paige Taylor. She swore it was euthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from a patient, the D.A. called it a murder. Dr. Kat Hunter.
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The Detective. Nothing Lasts Forever. Roderick Mayne Thorp Jr. (September 1, 1936 – April 28, 1999) was an American novelist specializing mainly in police procedural/ crime novels. His novel The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968.
Nothing Lasts Forever (Sheldon novel), a 1994 novel by Sidney Sheldon, adapted for a 1995 TV miniseries. Nothing Lasts Forever (Thorp novel), a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp, basis for the film Die Hard.
Nothing Lasts Forever. Roderick Thorp. Norton, 1979 - Hostages - 188 pages. Traveling to Los Angeles for Christmas, Joe Leland, a veteran cop and former war hero, stumbles upon a sensational terrorist crime in progress and is forced to quickly make hard life or death decisions.
