All the books by Jeff Rovin adapted to cinema and television

Nicholas Van Orton, a successful businessman, lives a well-ordered life – until an unexpected birthday gift from his brother destroys it all. Like it or not, Nicholas has been enrolled in a game that begins quietly but soon erupts in a rush of devastating events. Van Orton has to win this deadly game or lose control of everything in his life.

At the University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr. Hans Gruber, back to life. Dan’s fiancée Megan Halsey, daughter of the medical school’s dean, walks in on this experiment and is horrified.

After a ranger fails to rescue his partner’s girlfriend from a tragic death in the Rocky Mountains, he leaves the rescue team to wrestle with his guilt. When he returns to reconcile his relationship with his own girlfriend, also a rescue ranger, he is drawn into one last mission. This time, the victims they are rescuing turn out to be deadly criminals who are hauling away a large amount of cash.

An heiress named Muffy hosts a weekend gathering of eight college students at her secluded island mansion, where each guest is murdered after a hidden secret is revealed in this horror classic starring Deborah Foreman and Griffin O’Neal.

Major Vic Deak Deakins and Captain Riley Hale, pilots in the United States Air Force (USAF), are assigned to a secret exercise flying a stealth bomber with two B83 nuclear bombs over the western United States. Rhodes tries to disable the warhead but is killed by the only other search team survivor, Master Sergeant Kelly, who is serving as a mole for Deakins.

In post-Cold War Washington an inexperienced political appointee, Paul Hood, is to head the supposedly obsolete National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) – with an eye to downsizing it. No sooner is he introduced around by Deputy Director Brigadier General Mike Rodgers than he’s in the middle of a crisis: a rogue KGB unit hijacks three Ukrainian based nuclear warheads for sale to the Middle East.