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style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Walter Wager</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Walter_Wager.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Walter Wager"><img alt="Walter Wager" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Walter_Wager.jpg" decoding="async" width="156" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="156" data-file-height="200" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Walter Wager</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Walter Herman Wager<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1924-09-04</span>)</span>September 4, 1924<br /><a href="/wiki/The_Bronx,_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bronx, New York City">The Bronx, New York City</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">July 11, 2004<span style="display:none">(2004-07-11)</span> (aged 79)<br /><a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, New York, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Pen name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.4em;">John Tiger<br />Walter Hermann<br />Lee Davis Willoughby</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Writer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (BA)<br /><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> (JD)<br /><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Law_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwestern Law School">Northwestern Law School</a> (LLM)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Sylvia Leonard Wager (divorced; one child)<br /> Winifred McIvor Wager, married 1975 - July 11, 2004 (his death)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Walter Herman Wager</b><sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (September 4, 1924 – July 11, 2004)<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was an American crime and espionage-thriller novelist and former editor-in-chief of <i><a href="/wiki/Playbill" title="Playbill">Playbill</a></i> magazine. The movie <i><a href="/wiki/Telefon_(film)" title="Telefon (film)">Telefon</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bronson" title="Charles Bronson">Charles Bronson</a>, was inspired by his novel of the same name. His book <i><a href="/wiki/58_Minutes" title="58 Minutes">58 Minutes</a></i> was adapted into <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Hard_2" title="Die Hard 2">Die Hard 2</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Willis" title="Bruce Willis">Bruce Willis</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_career">Education and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Wager&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Walter Wager was born in <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">The Bronx</a>, New York City,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of a doctor and a nurse who had emigrated from the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-independent_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1944 graduate of <a href="/wiki/Columbia_College,_Columbia_University" title="Columbia College, Columbia University">Columbia College</a>, where he was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Philolexian_Society" title="Philolexian Society">Philolexian Society</a>, he went on to a <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> degree three years later.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Passing the <a href="/wiki/Bar_exams" class="mw-redirect" title="Bar exams">bar exams</a> but choosing not to practice,<sup id="cite_ref-independent_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he went on to receive a master's degree in <a href="/wiki/Aviation_law" title="Aviation law">aviation law</a> from Chicago's <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> in 1949,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while also serving as an editor of the <i><a href="/wiki/Dedman_School_of_Law#Programs_and_resources" title="Dedman School of Law">Journal of Air Law and Commerce</a></i>, then based in that city.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Afterward, he spent a year at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">Sorbonne</a>, in Paris, as a <a href="/wiki/Fulbright_Fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulbright Fellow">Fulbright Fellow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He spent a year in Israel as an aviation-law consultant for the Israeli Department of Civil Aviation,<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> helping to negotiate a treaty on <a href="/wiki/Air_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Air space">air space</a><sup id="cite_ref-independent_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and working out of <a href="/wiki/Lydda_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Lydda Airport">Lydda Airport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1952,<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he returned to New York City, where he worked for the United Nations, editing documents.<sup id="cite_ref-independent_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly afterward, Wager segued into writing and producing radio and television documentaries<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> and <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Information_Agency" title="United States Information Agency">United States Information Agency</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while also beginning a side career as a freelance writer for magazines including <i><a href="/wiki/Playbill" title="Playbill">Playbill</a></i> and <i>Show</i>. Under the pseudonym <b>John Tiger</b>, he wrote the paperback original <i>Death Hits the Jackpot</i> (Avon #605) for <a href="/wiki/Avon_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Avon Books">Avon Books</a>, the fifth publisher he contacted; published in 1954, it paid him $3,000.<sup id="cite_ref-2000interview_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000interview-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He recalled in 2000, "I had a friend at a paperback publishing house. I like mystery stories so I thought I could sell this kind of prose."<sup id="cite_ref-2000interview_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000interview-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For several years he worked as a freelance writer.<sup id="cite_ref-declass_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-declass-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two years later, he published a second Avon paperback, <i>Operation Intrigue</i>, under the name <b>Walter Herman</b>. From 1963 to 1996, Wager was editor-in-chief of <i>Playbill</i> magazine, and from 1966 to 1978 as editor of <i>ASCAP Today</i>, the magazine of the music-licensing organization the <a href="/wiki/American_Society_of_Composers,_Authors_and_Publishers" title="American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers">American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers</a>; he later became ASCAP's <a href="/wiki/Public-relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Public-relations">public-relations</a> director.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He held a similar position at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bridgeport" title="University of Bridgeport">University of Bridgeport</a> in <a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a> in the early 1990s,<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> until his retirement in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also did public relations for organizations including the <a href="/wiki/Juilliard_School" title="Juilliard School">Juilliard School</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Mann_Music_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Mann Music Center">Mann Music Center</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill_Theatre_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center">Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Wager was a member of the board of directors of the <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a>, and its secretary beginning in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Wager&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wager married Sylvia Leonard (d. 1989), a fellow American student he met at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">Sorbonne</a>, in 1951 in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two had a daughter, Lisa, before the marriage ended in divorce.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married second wife Winifred McIvor Wage in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A resident of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Upper_West_Side" title="Upper West Side">Upper West Side</a>, he died of complications of <a href="/wiki/Brain_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Brain cancer">brain cancer</a> in 2004, at the assisted-living facility Amsterdam House in Manhattan.<sup id="cite_ref-nyt_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Wager&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Wager was best known as an author of crime and espionage thrillers. His novel <i>Viper Three</i> (<a href="/wiki/Macmillan_Publishers_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Macmillan Publishers (United States)">Macmillan</a>, 1971) was released as <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight%27s_Last_Gleaming" title="Twilight's Last Gleaming">Twilight's Last Gleaming</a></i>, with <a href="/wiki/Burt_Lancaster" title="Burt Lancaster">Burt Lancaster</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Widmark" title="Richard Widmark">Richard Widmark</a>, in 1977. That same year, his spy novel <i>Telefon</i> (Macmillan, 1975) was adapted as the <a href="/wiki/Telefon_(film)" title="Telefon (film)">same-name movie</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Charles_Bronson" title="Charles Bronson">Charles Bronson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lee_Remick" title="Lee Remick">Lee Remick</a>. Wager's airport-based thriller <i><a href="/wiki/58_Minutes" title="58 Minutes">58 Minutes</a></i> (1987) became the basis for the 1990 action film <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Hard_2" title="Die Hard 2">Die Hard 2</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Willis" title="Bruce Willis">Bruce Willis</a>. Additionally, Wager wrote a number of original novels in the 1960s under the pseudonym "John Tiger" that were based on the TV series <i><a href="/wiki/I_Spy_(1965_TV_series)" title="I Spy (1965 TV series)">I Spy</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_(1966_TV_series)" title="Mission: Impossible (1966 TV series)">Mission: Impossible</a></i>. He also wrote the farce <i>My Side, by King Kong as Told to Walter Wager</i>, published by Macmillan in 1976. </p><p>His series <i>Blue Leader</i>, <i>Blue Moon</i>, and <i>Blue Murder</i> featured tough <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Hills" class="mw-redirect" title="Beverly Hills">Beverly Hills</a> private detective Alison Gordon.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As one of several writers using the pseudonym <b>Lee Davis Willoughby</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Wager also wrote the historical novels <i>The Wildcatters</i> and <i>The Caribbeans</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Wager&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Death Hits the Jackpot</i> (1954; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>The Pentagon's Favorite Magicians</i> (1954; as John Tiger. Not published until 2014 by request of United States Department of Defense<sup id="cite_ref-declass_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-declass-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><i>Operation Intrigue</i> (1956; as Walter Herman)</li> <li><i>I Spy</i> (1965; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>I Spy #2: Masterstroke</i> (1966; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>I Spy #3: Superkill</i> (1967; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>I Spy #4: Wipeout</i> (1967; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>I Spy #5: Countertrap</i> (1967; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>I Spy #6: Doomdate</i> (1967; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>Mission: Impossible</i> (1967; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>The Playwrights Speak</i> (interviews with <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Wesker" title="Arnold Wesker">Arnold Wesker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Miller" title="Arthur Miller">Arthur Miller</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Osborne" title="John Osborne">John Osborne</a>; 1967)</li> <li><i>I Spy #7: Death-Twist</i> (1968; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>Mission: Impossible #4: Code Name Little Ivan</i> (1969; as John Tiger)</li> <li><i>Sledgehammer</i> (1970)</li> <li><i>Warhead</i> (1971)</li> <li><i>Viper Three</i> (1972), adapted for film as <i><a href="/wiki/Twilight%27s_Last_Gleaming" title="Twilight's Last Gleaming">Twilight's Last Gleaming</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i>Swap</i> (1973)</li> <li><i>Telefon</i> (1975), adapted for film as <i><a href="/wiki/Telefon_(film)" title="Telefon (film)">Telefon</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i>Time of Reckoning</i> (1977)</li> <li><i>Blue Leader</i> (1979)</li> <li><i>Blue Moon</i> (1981)</li> <li><i>The Wildcatters (The Making of America, Book 21)</i> (Dell Publishing; as Lee Davis Willoughby; 1981)</li> <li><i>Blue Murder</i> (1982)</li> <li><i>Designated Hitter</i> (1982)</li> <li><i>The Caribbeans</i> (Dell Publishing; as Lee Davis Willoughby; 1983)</li> <li><i>Otto's Boy</i> (1985)</li> <li><i>Raw Deal</i>, <a href="/wiki/Novelization" title="Novelization">novelization</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Raw_Deal_(1986_film)" title="Raw Deal (1986 film)">Arnold Schwarzenegger film</a> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/58_Minutes" title="58 Minutes">58 Minutes</a></i> (1987), adapted for film as <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Hard_2" title="Die Hard 2">Die Hard 2</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i>The Spirit Team</i> (1996)</li> <li><i>Tunnel</i> (2001)</li> <li><i>Kelly's People</i> (2002)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Walter_Wager&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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