Walter Wager

About Walter Wager

Three of his novels have been made into movies. “Telefon”, “Die Hard 2” (which is based on “58 Minutes”), and “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” (based on “Viper Three”). Walter’s novels have been translated into more than 15 languages. He graduated from Columbia College, and was a member of the Philolexian Society, and went on to a Harvard Law School degree just three years later. He passed the bar yet decided not to practice, and went on to get his master’s degree in aviation law from Chicago’s Northwestern University in 1949, as he served as an editor of the Journal of Air Law and Commerce. Then he spent a year at the Sorbonne, in Paris, as a Fulbright Fellow. He spent another year in Israel as an aviation law consultant for the Israeli Department of Civil Aviation, helping negotiate a treaty o