1. Gavin Tudor Lyall was an English author of espionage thrillers.
10 Facts About Gavin Lyall
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Gavin Lyall lived at 14 Provost Rd, London NW3 and enjoyed sailing on the Thames in his motor cruiser.
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Whitmore, a central character in the story was inspired by John Wayne whom Gavin Lyall had met while reporting on the making of the 1957 film Legend of the Lost in Libya.
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Gavin Lyall is credited as co-writer of the original story on which the screenplay of the 1969 science-fiction film Moon Zero Two is based.
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Gavin Lyall was a wargamer and appeared in "Battleground", a Tyne Tees television series on miniature war gaming in 1978.
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Gavin Lyall won the British Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger award in both 1964 and 1965.
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Gavin Lyall was not a prolific author, attributing his slow pace to obsession with technical accuracy.
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Gavin Lyall eventually published the results of his research in a series of pamphlets for the Crime Writers' Association in the 1970s.
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Gavin Lyall signed a contract in 1964 by the investments group Booker similar to one they had signed with Ian Fleming.
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Up to the publication in 1975 of Judas Country, Gavin Lyall's work falls into two groups.