Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Most critics were scornful of his novels' flat prose and pedestrian characters. Irving Wallace (March 19 1916 – June 29 1990) was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. 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".