Nothing Lasts Forever Roderick Thorp Pdf Free 21
Clotilde Moralas
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. He was inspired to write it after seeing The Towering Inferno, about a skyscraper that catches fire.
NYPD Detective Joe Leland is retired from the force and traveling to Los Angeles on Christmas Eve to visit his estranged daughter, Stephanie Genarro. On his flight to LA, he stirs up a relationship with an airline stewardess named Kathi before landing. He is then picked up in a limo and taken to where Stephanie's Christmas party is, at the top floor of the Klaxon Oil Building, an enormous skyscraper downtown. After meeting Stephanie and the other executives, Joe goes to clean up. To help combat the effects of jet lag, he takes off his shoes and begins rubbing his feet, and leaves a message on Kathi's answering machine. At this time, twelve politically motivated European terrorists, led by psychotic Anton "Little Tony the Red" Gruber, arrive on the floor and take all 72 guests as hostages, including Stephanie and her children. Joe takes his Browning pistol, and slips away. Joe must then walk the fine line between taking out the terrorists, coordinating with the LAPD, and keeping himself and the hostages alive.
Hans- Karl's younger brother, one of the terrorists in Anton Gruber's group of terrorists during the takover of the Klaxon Oil building. He is killed by Leland earlier in the novel. Causing Karl to have a vendetta against Leland and obssess with killing him.
Karen Leland (referenced repeatedly) - Leland's ex-wife. They had a rocky relationship and eventually separated. Eventually she died. His personal/family life falling apart haunts Joe throughout the novel.
Updated Synopsis: "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. But before Bruce Willis blew away audiences as unstoppable hero John McClane, author Roderick Thorp knocked out thriller readers with the bestseller that started it all."
The Graymalkin Media website includes a page with a chronological point by point comparison of similarities between the film and the novel, entitled "How Much of Nothing Lasts Forever is in Die Hard." -much-of-nothing-lasts-forever-is-in-die-hard/
7fc3f7cf58