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Walter Herman Wager (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004) was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of Playbill magazine. The movie Telefon , starring Charles Bronson , was inspired by his novel of the same name.
Jul 14, 2004 · Walter Wager, a novelist whose crime and spy thrillers -- among them ''58 Minutes,'' which became the Bruce Willis film ''Die Hard 2'' -- amounted to a catalog of modern mayhem, nuclear and...
Walter Wager has 53 books on Goodreads with 3051 ratings. Walter Wager’s most popular book is 58 Minutes (Die Hard, #2).
Author of more than 30 crime and spy novels, with three of his books having been made into movies: Die Hard 2 (based on 58 Minutes), Telefon and Twilight's Last Gleaming (based on his novel Viper Three). His books have been translated into over 15 languages.
Jul 11, 2004 · Wager was best known as an author of mystery and spy fiction; his works included 58 Minutes (1987), whose story was used as the basis of the action film Die Hard 2 in 1990. Two of his other novels became major motion pictures in 1977: Viper Three (1972), which was released as Twilight's Last Gleaming, and Telefon (1975).
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Walter Wager. Writer: Die Hard 2. Graduated from Harvard Law School. Was a Fullbright Fellow at the Sorbonne in Paris, and diplomatic advisor to Israel's Director of Civil Aviation, and editor of "Playbill" & "Show".
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Jul 15, 2004 · Walter Wager, 79, whose spy novels were turned into movies starring Bruce Willis and Charles Bronson, died Sunday of brain cancer in New York City, his family said....
