Roderick Thorp
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 .
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 . See less