The Prize

Overview: Irving Wallace (March 19, 1916 – June 29, 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Wallace was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. One critic described him as "the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously, not to say lugubriously". Wallace was a blue-collar writer who wrote for a blue-collar audience. Most critics were scornful of his novels' flat prose and pedestrian characters. When a group of honorees arrive in Stockholm for the Nobel Prize ceremony, the American novelist confesses he suspects the German physicist is an imposter. Before long, he finds himself involved with communist agents, a murder and a near-drowning... his own.