Walter Wager

Walter Herman Wager was an American novelist. A graduate of Columbia University and the Harvard Law School, he worked in public relations for ASCAP and the University of Hartford. He was best known as an author of mystery and spy fiction; his works included 58 Minutes, adapted to become the action film Die Hard 2 in 1990. Two of his other novels also became major motion pictures: Telefon and Viper Three, which was released as Twilight's Last Gleaming. He also wrote a number of original novels in the 1960s, under the pseudonym John Tiger, based upon the TV series I Spy and Mission: Impossible. He died in 2004 in New York City.