Gaulle Loren Singer, The Parallax View (1972) Trevanian, The Eiger Sanction (1972) Michael Crichton (as John Lange), Binary (1972) – suspense novel about a U.S. President George Shipway, The Paladin (1972), The Wolf Time (1973) – historical novels about Walter Tyrell, the presumed assassin of King William Rufus in 1100 Trevanian, The Loo Sanction (1973) Richard Condon, Winter Kills (1974) Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed (1975) – war novel about a plot by Himmler to capture Churchill Sjöwall and Wahlöö, The Terrorists (1975) – suspense novel about a Swedish Prime Minister (not Olof Palme) Gerald Seymour, Harry's Game (1975) David Littlejohn, The Man Who Killed Mick Jagger (Little, Brown, 1977) Matthew Eden, The Murder of Lawrence of Arabia (1979) Trevanian, Shibumi (1979) Frederick Forsyth, The Devil's Alternative (1979) – complex novel involving a plot to start rebellion in Ukraine in which the KGB chief Yuri Ivanenko is murdered Stephen King, The Dead Zone (1979) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity (1980) Mary Renault, Funeral Games (1981) – historical novel about Roxana, Alexander IV, and others Harry Mulisch, The Assault (1982) Alan Moore, V for Vendetta (1982–1988) – graphic novel featuring numerous assassinations of governmental and quasi-governmental officials by the eponymous character, V Jean Van Hamme (and William Vance), XIII (1984) – graphic novel about a U.S. President Tom Clancy, Patriot Games (1987) – suspense novel about the Prince and Princess of Wales Don DeLillo, Libra (1988) Roderick Thorp, Devlin (1988) – suspense novel about a New York mayoral candidate Frederick Forsyth, The Negotiator—complex novel, in which Simon Cormack, son of President of the United States John Cormack is kidnapped for ransom (which protagonist Quinn has to deliver) and is then murdered during his return Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Flown (1991) – war novel about a plot by Himmler to assassinate Hitler, Rommel and Canaris Jack Higgins, Eye of the Storm (1992) – suspense novel about an attack on John Major John Grisham, The Pelican Brief (1992) – suspense novel which opens with the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices in one night J. C. Pollock, Threat Case (1992) Tom Clancy, Debt of Honor (1994) – war novel that ends with the bombing of the Capitol Building, wiping out the entire U.S. government except for the newly confirmed Vice President Frederick Forsyth, The Fist of God (1994) – factual novel about supergun designer Gerald Bull Nicholas Shakespeare, The Dancer Upstairs