Thomas Gifford
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Thomas Eugene Gifford (May 16, 1937 – October 31, 2000) was a best-selling American author of thriller novels. He was a graduate of Harvard University.
He gained international fame with the crime novel The Glendower Legacy and later with the Vatican thriller The Assassini. The books posited George Washington as a British spy and the Roman Catholic Church as a criminal organization. The Glendower Legacy was made into a movie in 1981 under the name Dirty Tricks.
Gifford also published under the names Dana Clarins and Thomas Maxwell.
He died of cholangiocarcinoma on Halloween in Dubuque, Iowa in 2000.
[edit] Bibliography
- 1975 – The Wind Chill Factor
- 1976 – The Cavanaugh Quest
- 1977 – The Man from Lisbon
- 1978 – The Glendower Legacy
- 1979 – Hollywood Gothic
- 1990 – The Assassini
- 1993 – Praetorian
- 1994 – The First Sacrifice
- 1996 – Saint's Rest
as Thomas Maxwell
- 1986 – Kiss Me Once
- 1987 – The Saberdene Variations
- 1988 – Kiss Me Twice
- 1990 – The Suspense Is Killing Me
as Dana Clarins
- 1984 – Woman in the Window
- 1985 – Guilty Parties
- 1986 – The Woman Who Knew Too Much
