Touch the Lion's Paw explained

Touch the Lion's Paw
Author:	Derek Lambert
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Thriller
Publisher:	E. P. Dutton & Co.
Release Date:	1975
Media Type:	Print

Touch the Lion's Paw is a 1975 thriller novel by the British writer Derek Lambert. The plot revolves around a major diamond heist carried out in Amsterdam.^[1]

Adaptation

In 1980 it was adapted into the film Rough Cut directed by Don Siegel and starring Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down and David Niven.^[2]

Bibliography

• Burton, Alan. Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction. Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Notes and References

1. Burton p.233
2. Goble p.272