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Hank Searls (born Henry Hunt Searls August 10, 1922) is an American author and screenwriter. His novels included ''The Crowded Sky'' (1960), which was adapted as a film with Dana Andrews and Rhonda Fleming, ''The Penetrators'' (1965, writing as Anthony Gray), and ''The Pilgrim Project'' (1964), which was adapted as the 1968 film ''Countdown''. Searls also wrote the novelizations for the films ''Jaws 2'' (1978) starring Roy Scheider and Murray Hamilton and ''Jaws: The Revenge'' (1987) starring Michael Caine and Lorraine Gary. ==Career== Hank Searls' novel ''The Crowded Sky'' was made into a motion picture in 1960 by Warner Brothers starring Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Anne Francis, and Troy Donahue. Set in the corridors of power of the USAF's Strategic Air Command, the 1965 novel ''The Penetrators'' is the story of a maverick Royal Air Force exchange officer who leads a mock Avro Vulcan bomber attack on the USA. Replete with quotes from Curtis LeMay, Robert S McNamara and other key figures of the Cold War era, ''The Penetrators'' foreshadowed the kind of richly detailed, political-military thriller which later became the trademark of Tom Clancy. The book also strongly argued the case for the US's manned long-range bomber force, which was then in danger of being phased out in favour of ICBMs. Searls' novel ''The Pilgrim Project'' was adapted for the screen as the 1968 Robert Altman film ''Countdown'', which starred Robert Duvall and James Caan. Based on his own novel of the same title, Searls wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Angie Dickinson television film ''Overboard''. He wrote a biography of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. ''The Lost Prince: Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy.'' This became the basis of the 1977 television film ''Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy'', with Peter Strauss in the title role. Searls' other military and aviation-themed novels included: ''The Astronaut'' (1962), ''Pentagon'' (1971), ''Hero Ship'' (1969), ''The Big X'' (1959), and ''Altitude Zero'' (1991). His other writings were ''Firewind'' (1981), ''Sounding'' (1982), ''Blood Song'' (1984), ''Kataki'' (1987), and ''The Adventures of Mike Blair'' (1988). He also wrote the novelisations of the films ''Jaws 2'' in 1978 and ''Jaws: The Revenge'' in 1987. In the book "Console Wars" (2014) by Blake Harris, the popular Sega Genesis game Ecco the Dolphin (1992) is said to be inspired by Searls' novel "Sounding", though the reference is anonymized. Ed Annunziata, designer of Ecco and its sequel, allegedly came up with the concept for the game while reading the novel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hank Searls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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