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John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) [1] was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.
Despondent over this revelation, Creasy gives Samuel a gun and the bullet he once used in his suicide attempt, with Samuel killing himself as Creasy leaves. Guerrero and Manzano trace the ransom money and uncover the Voice's identity. Creasy captures the Voice’s brother and learns that the ringleader's real name is Daniel Sanchez.
Two real-life incidents shaped A. J. Quinnell's development of the book. In the first, after the eldest son of a rich Singaporean was kidnapped by Triads for ransom money, the man refused to pay the ransom, leading to the death of his son; the refusal meant that the man's other children would not become targets.
"The film's super-saturated look and quick cutting are mere substitutes for any real sense of intrigue," wrote The New Yorker's Bruce Diones. 13 (tie). "The Equalizer 2" (2018) ... John Creasy. He ...
Man on Fire (Italian: Un uomo sotto tiro, French: L'homme de feu) is a 1987 action thriller film directed by Élie Chouraqui and starring Scott Glenn and Jade Malle. [1] It is based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell, with a screenplay by Chouraqui, Sergio Donati, and Fabrice Ziolkowski.
The author's best-known creation was the character of Marcus Creasy, an American-born former member of the French Foreign Legion. The Creasy novels are cult favorites in Japan. Man on Fire was directly adapted for film twice, in 1987 and 2004. The latter film was adapted into a 2005 Bollywood film. This resulted in a wider demand for Quinnell's ...
John Carpenter loosely based the film's villain on someone he met in college. ... All About the Real Person Who Inspired Michael Myers. Nicole Briese. October 4, 2024 at 7:07 AM.
The CWA New Blood Dagger is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) for first books by previously unpublished writers. [1] It is given in memory of CWA founder John Creasey and was previously known as the John Creasey Memorial Award.