Gerald Petievich
American writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerald Petievich is a Serbian-American writer of crime novels, most notably To Live and Die in L.A. and The Quality of the Informant.[1]
He was a United States Secret Service Special Agent from 1970 to 1985.[2][3] Three of his novels were adapted for the screen: To Live and Die in L.A., The Sentinel, and Boiling Point.[4][5] Petievich co-wrote the screenplays for all three.[6]