Black Sunday (novel)
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| Author(s) | Thomas Harris |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 318 |
| ISBN | 0399114432 |
| OCLC Number | 1123602 |
| Dewey Decimal | 813/.5/4 |
| LC Classification | PZ4.H3163 Bl PS3558.A656 |
Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris.[1]
It was the first novel by Harris, and achieved only moderate success,[1] until it was sold to Hollywood, for the production of a film based on the novel. The novel is a thriller about a plot by terrorists to commit mass murder during the Super Bowl in New Orleans, and law enforcement efforts to stop them. Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them. Harris went on to write the Hannibal Lecter series.
[edit] Film adaptation
Main article: Black Sunday (1977 film)
In 1977, a film was made based on the novel starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern and directed by John Frankenheimer.
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