Black Sunday (novel)
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| Black Sunday | |
| Author | Thomas Harris |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 318 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0399114432 |
- This article is about the novel. For other meanings see Black Sunday.
Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris. It was the first novel by Harris, who went on to write the Hannibal Lecter novels. Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them.
[edit] Film adaptation
- Main article:Black Sunday (1977 film)
In 1977, a film was made based on the novel starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern and directed by John Frankenheimer.
