Nothing Lasts Forever (DIE HARD)-- (SIGNED Plus MOVIE TIE-INS)

Thorp, Roderick

ISBN 10: 0393012492 / ISBN 13: 9780393012491

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1979

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1st Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). SIGNED by author on a bookplate decal attached to half-title page (signature only). DJ clipped at bottom but not price clipped ($9.95 intact on top right). DJ has chip at spine top; mylar protected. Scarce 1st printing hardcover copy of book that was basis for the movie "Die Hard". Laid-in is a card SIGNED by ALAN RICKMAN (played 'Hans Gruber' in film---also laid-in is original New York Times obituary for Rickman); plus a laid-in B&W photo SIGNED by BRUCE WILLIS (played 'John McClaine). Also includes laid-in a card SIGNED by WILLIAM ALTHERTON (played Richard Thornburg Die Hard #1 & #2 films). Also includes laid-in a sheet SIGNED by STEVEN DE SOUZA (screenwriter for all 3 Die Hard films). Also laid-in is a card SIGNED by JOHN AMOS (played 'Maj. Grant' in Die Hard 2); another photo-card SIGNED by HART BOCHNER (played 'Harry Ellis'); and a B&W.photo SIGNED by ROBERT DAVI (played 'Big Johnson'. Laid-in is an album page SIGNED by KEVIN CHAMBERLAIN (played 'Charles Weiss' in Die Hard 2). Also comes with a DVD of original 'Die Hard' film. Unique signed copy for the Rod Thorpe-Die Hard fan or collector. No international orders for this item. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nothing Lasts Forever (DIE HARD)-- (SIGNED Plus MOVIE TIE-INS)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393012492
• ISBN 13: 9780393012491
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Books To Film Specials

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Synopsis

Traveling to Los Angeles for Christmas, Joe Leland, a veteran cop and former war hero, stumbles upon a sensational terrorist crime in progress and is forced to quickly make hard life or death decisions

Review

A ferocious, bloody, raging book so single-mindedly brilliant in concept and execution it should be read at a single sitting. -- Los Angeles Times "Los Angeles Times"

Keeps us in a state of almost unequaled

suspense and excitement! -- The New Yorker "The New Yorker"

Novel That Inspired 'Die Hard' Returns to Print After 20 Years
Roderick Thorp's "Nothing Lasts Forever" was adapted into the iconic franchise's first film.

Die Hard has returned, and not just to movie theaters. The book that inspired the original film is back in print after 20 years.Late author Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever is being released in trade paperback and ebook by Graymalkin Media to mark the 25th anniversary of its original publication.

The book was adapted into 1988's Die Hard. But before Bruce Willis brought New York cop John McClane to life, he was an idea scrawled in Thorp's notebook. (The cop is named Joe Leland in the novel.)

The ebook includes copies of Thorp's notes, the first time they have been published. He wrote them while living in Laurel Canyon, his house overlooking a high-rise building on the Wilshire Corridor. (That building became the inspiration for the one taken over by terrorists in the book.)

"Just as there are no flashbacks, there are no shifts in point of view. Everything is told -- discovered -- from Leland's interior," Thorp wrote in his treatment for the novel.

Before Willis ultimately took the role, a number of other stars turned it down. The first to pass was Frank Sinatra, who played Joe Leland in The Detective (1968), based on Thorp's novel of the same name. Other stars who declined to play the now iconic role included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Richard Gere, Harrison Ford and Mel Gibson.

"Die Hard very closely follows the book, so reading Nothing Lasts Forever gives fans the chance to enjoy the thrill of the Die Hard story in more detail, experience the scenes that didn't make it into the film, and discover the novel's shocking ending," said Graymalkin Media Owner and CEO David Zindel.

The Hollywood Reporter, 2/23/2013 by Aaron Couch