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Black Sunday
First edition cover
Author	Thomas Harris
Country	USA
Language	English
Publisher	G.P. Putnam's Sons
Publication date	1975
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	318
ISBN	0399114432
OCLC Number	1123602
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Classification	PZ4.H3163 Bl PS3558.A656

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.

[edit] Film adaptation

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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