Black Sunday is a 1975 novel by Thomas Harris.
It was the first novel by Harris, who went on to write the Hannibal Lecter series. Harris wrote the novel after watching the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis where Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage and murdered them.
In 1977, a film was made based on the novel starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern and directed by John Frankenheimer.
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- 1975