Patrick Alexander (writer)

Patrick Alexander (1926 – 1997 or 2003 ) was a British novelist, thriller writer, journalist and screenwriter.

His novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal won the Crime Writers' Association "John Creasey Memorial Award" and was filmed in 1981 as Le Professionnel starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Stephen Hunter admits that Alexander's novel inspired his own novel Dead Zero and questions where the inspiration ends and the theft of Alexander's idea begins.

Alexander was a chess fanatic; people in his novels often share his enthusiasm for the game. Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal features a "considerable description of a tournament" that chess player Stewart Reuben had organised.

Novels

 * Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal (1976)
 * Show Me A Hero (1979)
 * Soldier On The Other Side (1983)
 * Ryfka (1988)

Screenplays

 * Studio One (TV series) (1948)
 * Der Verdammte (1957) (German TV movie)
 * Passport to Shame (1958)
 * De Veroordeelde (1959) (Dutch TV movie)