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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.
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.
His novel The Detective was adapted into a film of the same name in 1968. Thorp is also better known for its sequel, the bestselling novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, which later served as the basis for the film Die Hard, thus Thorp became a creator of the entire media franchise of the same name.
Nothing Lasts Forever. Roderick Thorp. 3.50. 2,845 ratings457 reviews. This bestseller was the basis for the blockbuster film Die Hard starring Bruce Willis. High atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, an office Christmas party turns into a deadly cage-match between a lone New York City cop and a gang of international terrorists.
Based on Roderick Thorp's novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, Die Hard was originally meant to tell the story of Joseph Leland, a much older cop who was already an established literary...
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.
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, written by pulp journeyman Roderick Thorpdoesn't top the thrills of its movie adaptation, but it is swinging for the fences nonetheless. The story is almost the same, but not quite identical.
A novel by Roderick Thorp High atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, an office Christmas party turns into a deadly cage-match between a lone New York City cop and a gang of international terrorists. Every action fan knows it could only be the explosive big-screen blockbuster Die Hard.
Books. Nothing Lasts Forever. Roderick Thorp. Random House Publishing Group, Jun 12, 1983 - Fiction - 184 pages. Leland is now a retired police officer on his way to Los Angeles to visit his...
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...