Nothing Lasts Forever (1979 novel)

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Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp.

1 Summary
2 Adaptions
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Summary

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Nothing Lasts Forever is a sequel to Thorp's 1966 novel The Detective. It follows Detective Joe Leland, who is visiting the Claxxon Oil Corporation's headquarters in Los Angeles, where his daughter works. While he is visiting, a German terrorist team led by Anton "Tony" Gruber takes over the building. Leland remains undetected and fights off the terrorists one by one.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Adaptions

Nothing Lasts Forever was adapted in 1988 as the film Die Hard. Despite the changing of certain characters' names (from Joe Leland to John McClane and Tony Gruber to Hans Gruber), the movie is fairly faithful to the novel. McClane communicates to the terrorists via walkie-talkie and commits some of the same acts of sabotage that Leland does in the novel.