Thorp, Roderick

Roderick Thorp is the author of "The Detective", "Rainbow Drive", and"Nothing Lasts Forever", the basis for the movie "Die Hard". He has worked as a private detective and done extensive crime reporting, including a twenty-one-part series on cocaine traffic in Southern California, which was published in the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner". Thorp s other novels include "Into the Forest", " Dionysus", "Slaves", "The Circle of Love", "Westfield", "Jenny and Barnum", "Devlin", and "River".