Walter Wager: 7 books

A breakneck thriller by the author of 58 Minutes, the basis of the blockbuster film Die Hard 2.   Ernest Beller stands at the end of a giant pit, watching as the Americans who liberated Dachau are trying to bury the countless bodies they have found. Nine years later, Beller still sees those bodies . . ....

A terrifying novel of political conspiracy and basis for the movie starring Joseph Cotten, from the bestselling author of Time of Reckoning and Telefon.   A retired general takes over a missile silo in the Badlands. His threat is to provoke a world war, launching deadly ordnance, unless the president...

An edgy Cold War thriller, perfect for fans of The Manchurian Candidate and other terrifying conspiracy novels. The Russians called the project TELEFON. Collect 430 first-class English speakers who’d never left the country. Drill them in every detail of American life and then hand-pick...

A Dishy Tell-All Memoir from the Great Ape A funny thing happened on the way to the Empire State Building...and now, for the first time since his 1933 debut, King Kong, thelegendary ape of the big screen, tells his fascinating story. In My Side, he answers: What was his romantic lead...

“A bust-em-up gutsy book” about an elite unit of soldiers, hand-picked for a mission behind enemy lines, on a quest for vengeance (Los Angeles Times). Sledgehammer is the code name for the operation of an elite OSS unit behind German lines during World War II. Five experts in guerrilla...

After Die Hard blew the doors off movie theaters, there was no doubt that Bruce Willis’s one-man-army of a cop would hit the big screen again, even harder. And Die Hard 2 made it happen—doubling down on the explosive action. And just like the original blockbuster, the sensational sequel leaped...

The five ace intelligence agents gathered at the secret St. John Institute are the best of the best. The best at tradecraft. The best at weapons handling. The best at analyzing a volatile situation, getting in, getting what they came for, and getting out alive. They are all dead-their old identities...