Walter Wager - Wager was best known as an author of mystery and spy fiction; his works included 58 Minutes (1987), whose story was used as the basis of the action film Die Hard 2 in 1990. Two of his other novels became major motion pictures in 1977: Viper Three (1972), which was released as Twilights Last Gleaming, and Telefon (1975). Wager wrote a number of original novels in the 1960s under the pseudonym John Tiger that were based on the TV series I Spy and Mission: Impossible.Born Walter Herman Wager in the Bronx, NY, he was the son of Russian immigrants, and he attended Columbia College at Columbia University. He graduated in 1944 and later earned a law degree from Harvard; the practice of law interested him less than aviation, however, and Wager s Wager was ...
