Patrick Alexander (writer) explained
Patrick Alexander (1926 – 1997[1] or 2003) 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"[2] 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.[3]
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
Notes and References
- Web site: Alexander, Patrick. Johnson and Alcock, literary agents. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121025020506/http://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/content/view/51/39/. 2012-10-25.
- Web site: The John Creasey Dagger. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131115071720/http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/newblood.html. 2013-11-15.
- Book: Hunter, Stephen. Dead Zero. registration. Stephen Hunter. Simon & Schuster. 2010. 9781439149935.
- Reuben. Stewart. Stewart Reuben. Chess. Chess in Fiction. October 1983. 126. 48-49.
