 Frank Sinatra (I) (qv) plays Detective Joe Leland from the novel  (The Detective) by Roderick Thorp (qv). Thorp wrote a sequel  (Nothing Lasts Forever) where Leland is trapped in a Claxxon Oil  Corporation skyscraper after its taken by German terrorists and  must rescue his daughter and grandchildren. Twenty years later the  novel was filmed with some changes: the daughter became his wife,  Claxxon became the Nakatomi Corporation and Joe Lelands name was  changed to John McClane. The film was released under the title  _Die Hard (1988)_ (qv).