Patrick_Alexander_(novelist)

Patrick Alexander (writer)

Patrick Alexander (writer)

British writer

Patrick Alexander (1926 – 1997[1] or 2003[2]) was a British novelist, thriller writer, journalist and screenwriter.

His novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal won the Crime Writers' Association "John Creasey Memorial Award"[3] and was filmed in 1981 as Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Stephen Hunter admits that Alexander's novel inspired his own novel Dead Zero and questions where the inspiration ends and the theft of Alexander's idea begins.[2]

Alexander was a chess fanatic; people in his novels often share his enthusiasm for the game. Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal features a "considerable description of a tournament" that chess player Stewart Reuben had organised.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal (1976)
  • Show Me A Hero (1979)
  • Soldier On The Other Side (1983)
  • Ryfka (1988)

Screenplays

References

  1. [1]
    "Alexander, Patrick". Johnson and Alcock, literary agents. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012.
  2. [2]
    Hunter, Stephen (2010). Dead Zero. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781439149935.
  3. [3]
    "The John Creasey Dagger". Archived from the original on 15 November 2013.
  4. [4]
    Reuben, Stewart (October 1983). "Chess in Fiction". Chess. 48–49: 126.
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