Roderick Thorp was born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA on September 1st, 1936 and passed away at the age of 62 on April 28th, 1999.
Roderick Thorp Stats: The highest rated book by Roderick Thorp on Book Notification is Nothing Lasts Forever / Die Hard, the 2nd novel in the Joe Leland series. The second-highest rated book is Rainbow Drive, a Standalone novel.
The most read book by Roderick Thorp on Book Notification is Nothing Lasts Forever / Die Hard, the 2nd novel in the Joe Leland series. The second most read book is Rainbow Drive, a Standalone novel.
Below is a complete list of Roderick Thorp books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Roderick Thorp is the Joe Leland Series.
Roderick Thorp (Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr.) was born on September 1st, 1936. Roderick passed away April 28th, 1999 at 62 years old. Roderick Thorp was born in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
Roderick Thorp (Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr.) is probably best known for his Standalone Novels. There are currently 12 novels available. The first standalone was released in 1961 with the novel Into the Forest. The most recently released novel was Hot Pursuit which was released in 2014.
Roderick Thorp also wrote the Joe Leland series which has 2 books including The Detective and Nothing Lasts Forever / Die Hard.
After he graduated from college, Roderick worked at his father's detective agency.
Roderick taught literature and lectured on creative writing.
The blockbuster movie Die Hard starring Bruce Willis was based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever. Note that none of the sequels were based on The Detective, the prior novel in the series. However, in 1968, a movie was made based on The Detective. It shared the same name, and starred Frank Sinatra. Gordon Douglas directed it, the fourth time that he directed a Sinatra movie. The novel Rainbow Drive was made into a movie in 1990. It was a TV movie which initially aired on Showtime in the USA. It also had a small release in theatres. It starred Peter Weller as the lead character and David Caruso was also in it. The book Devlin was also made into a TV movie. This was in 1992, and David Taylor wrote the screenplay for it. Bryan Brown played the lead character Frank Devlin, and Lloyd Bridges was also in Devlin.
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