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gavin lyall wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 biography 2 works 3 obituaries 4 references 5 notes toggle the table of contents gavin lyall 8 languages العربية مصرى deutsch français 日本語 nederlands română русский edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia english author 1932 2003 gavin lyall born gavin tudor lyall 1932 05 09 9 may 1932 birmingham warwickshire england died 18 january 2003 2003 01 18 aged 70 london occupations journalist and novelist spouse katharine whitehorn m 1958 writing career genre thriller gavin tudor lyall 9 may 1932 18 january 2003 was an english author of espionage thrillers biography edit lyall was born in birmingham then in warwickshire now west midlands england as the son of a local accountant and educated at king edward s school birmingham after completing his two years of national service 1951 to 1953 as a pilot officer in the royal air force flying gloster meteors he went to pembroke college cambridge graduating in 1956 with honours in english citation needed while at cambridge he wrote regularly for the undergraduate newspaper varsity and also created a strip cartoon whose hero olly reflected student life and became a cult figure he became editor of varsity in 1956 citation needed after graduating he worked briefly as a reporter for the birmingham gazette picture post and sunday graphic newspapers and then as a film director for the bbc s tonight programme in 1958 he married the author katharine whitehorn with whom he was to have two sons citation needed lyall lived at 14 provost rd london nw3 and enjoyed sailing on the thames in his motor cruiser from 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the sunday times his first novel the wrong side of the sky was published in 1961 drawing from his personal experiences in the libyan desert and in greece it was an immediate success p g wodehouse said of it terrific when better novels of suspense are written lead me to them 1 lyall then left journalism in 1963 to become a full time author citation needed lyall s first seven novels in the 1960s and early 1970s were action thrillers with different settings around the world the most dangerous game 1963 was set in finnish lapland the film rights to midnight plus one 1965 in which an ex spy is hired to drive a millionaire to liechtenstein were purchased by actor steve mcqueen who had planned to adapt it to the cinema before he died shooting script 1966 about a former raf pilot hired to fly his de havilland dove for a filming company later in the story a b 25 mitchell is set around the caribbean whitmore a central character in the story was inspired by john wayne whom lyall had met while reporting on the making of the 1957 film legend of the lost in libya the protagonists of judas country 1975 are again former raf pilots and the setting is now in cyprus and the middle east citation needed lyall is credited as co writer together with frank hardman and martin davison of the original story on which the screenplay of the 1969 science fiction film moon zero two is based citation needed gavin lyall was also a wargamer and appeared in battleground a tyne tees television series on miniature war gaming in 1978 lyall won the british crime writers association s silver dagger award in both 1964 and 1965 in 1966 67 he was chairman of the british crime writers association he was not a prolific author attributing his slow pace to obsession with technical accuracy according to a british newspaper he spent many nights in his kitchen at primrose hill north london experimenting to see if one could in fact cast bullets from lead melted in a saucepan or whether the muzzle flash of a revolver fired across a saucer of petrol really would ignite a fire 2 he eventually published the results of his research in a series of pamphlets for the crime writers association in the 1970s lyall signed a contract in 1964 by the investments group booker similar to one they had signed with ian fleming in return for a lump payment of 25 000 and an annual salary they and lyall subsequently split his royalties 51 49 2 up to the publication in 1975 of judas country lyall s work falls into two groups the aviation thrillers the wrong side of the sky the most dangerous game shooting script and judas country and what might be called euro thrillers revolving around international crime in europe midnight plus one venus with pistol and blame the dead all these books were written in the first person with a sardonic style reminiscent of the hard boiled private eye genre despite the commercial success of his work lyall began to feel that he was falling into a predictable pattern and abandoned both his earlier genres and the first person narrative for his harry maxim series of espionage thrillers beginning with the secret servant published in 1980 this book originally developed for a proposed bbc tv series featured major harry maxim an sas officer assigned as a security adviser to 10 downing street and was followed by three sequels with the same central cast of characters in the 1990s lyall changed literary direction once again and wrote four semi historical thrillers about the fledgling british secret service in the years leading up to world war i lyall died of cancer in 2003 citation needed works edit the wrong side of the sky 1961 the most dangerous game 1963 midnight plus one 1965 shooting script 1966 venus with pistol 1969 freedom s battle the war in the air 1939 1945 1971 blame the dead 1973 judas country 1975 operation warboard how to fight world war ii battles in miniature 1976 non fiction in collaboration with his son bernard lyall the secret servant 1980 the conduct of major maxim 1982 the crocus list 1985 uncle target 1988 spy s honour 1993 flight from honour 1996 all honourable men 1997 honourable intentions 1999 obituaries edit the guardian the times link removed new york times references edit murphy bruce f 1999 encyclopedia of murder and mystery palgrave macmillan isbn 0 312 29414 x pederson jay p klein kathleen gregory 1996 st james guide to crime mystery writers st james press isbn 1 55862 178 4 deandrea william l 1997 encyclopedia mysteriosa hungry minds isbn 0 02 861678 2 petri liukkonen gavin lyall books and writers whitehorn katharine 2007 selective memory little brown isbn 978 1 84408 240 7 notes edit guardian obituary infra 1 2 gavin lyall telegraph the daily telegraph london archived from the original on 6 january 2004 authority control databases international isni viaf gnd worldcat national united states japan italy spain netherlands norway korea poland israel belgium academics cinii people trove deutsche biographie other idref open library snac yale lux retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title gavin_lyall oldid 1372764297 categories 1932 births 2003 deaths alumni of pembroke college cambridge royal air force officers writers from birmingham west midlands english thriller writers english non fiction writers members of the detection club deaths from cancer in england booker authors division 20th century english male novelists 20th century english novelists english spy fiction writers 20th century english male non fiction writers hidden categories articles with short description short description is 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