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'''Harold Raymond King, Jr.''' (February 27, 1945 – October 15, 2010), also known as '''Hal King''', was an [[United States|American]] author and [[journalist]] known for his 1975 [[novel]] ''Paradigm Red,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/harold-king/paradigm-red.htm|title=Paradigm Red|publisher=[[Indianapolis, Indiana]]: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, ISBN 0-672-52051-6|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref> which became the 1977 [[NBC]] [[television]] film, ''Red Alert.''
'''Harold Raymond King, Jr.''' (February 27, 1945 – October 15, 2010), also known as '''Hal King''', was an [[United States|American]] author and [[journalist]] known for his 1975 [[novel]] ''Paradigm Red,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/k/harold-king/paradigm-red.htm|title=Paradigm Red|publisher=[[Indianapolis, Indiana]]: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975, ISBN 0-672-52051-6|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref> which became the 1977 [[NBC]] [[television]] film, ''Red Alert.''
The film version of the novel, made at the Johnson Space Center in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], stars[William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau,and Ralph Waite (1928-2014), then at the peak of his success on [[CBS]]'s family drama, ''The Waltons.'' In the story line, a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives false information of a [[radiation]] leak. The crew is trapped inside the compound.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076605/|title=''Red Alert''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref>
The film version of the novel, made at the Johnson Space Center in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], [[Texas]], stars William Devane, Michael Brandon, Adrienne Barbeau, and Ralph Waite (1928-2014), then at the peak of his success on [[CBS]]'s family drama, ''The Waltons.'' In the story line, a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives false information of a [[radiation]] leak. The crew is trapped inside the compound.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076605/|title=''Red Alert''|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
King was born to Anne M. King of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], and the [[United States Air Force]] Lieutenant Colonel Harold King, Sr. (1924–2000), formerly of [[Michigan]]. King's obituary does not give his place of birth or rearing, high school, or the college granting his undergraduate degree. He served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in the [[Vietnam War]]. He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree in professional writing from the [[University of Oklahoma]] at Norman, [[Oklahoma]]. In the 1970s, he was an award-winning investigative reporter for ''The Shreveport Times.'' His former wife, Elaine Tucker King (born 1949), was also on the newspaper staff. King taught an undergraduate writing course at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-raymond-king-hal&pid=146006899|title=Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr., obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 17, 2010|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref>
King was born to Anne M. King of [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], and the [[United States Air Force]] Lieutenant Colonel Harold King, Sr. (1924–2000), formerly of [[Michigan]]. King's obituary does not give his place of birth or rearing, high school, or the college granting his undergraduate degree. He served in the [[United States Marine Corps]] in the [[Vietnam War]]. He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree in professional writing from the [[University of Oklahoma]] at Norman, [[Oklahoma]]. In the 1970s, he was an award-winning investigative reporter for ''The Shreveport Times.'' His former wife, Elaine Tucker King (born 1949), was also on the newspaper staff. King taught an undergraduate writing course at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/shreveporttimes/obituary.aspx?n=harold-raymond-king-hal&pid=146006899|title=Harold Raymond "Hal" King, Jr., obituary|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=October 17, 2010|accessdate=October 22, 2019}}</ref>
==Novels==
==Novels==
In addition to ''Paradigm Red,'' King authored the novels ''Four Days'' (a [[Cold War]] thriller), ''Taskmaster,'' ''Code of Arms,'' and ''The Hahnemann Sequela.'' And under the pen name "Brian Harris" he novelized the miniseries ''World War III.''
In addition to ''Paradigm Red,'' King authored the novels ''Four Days'' (a [[Cold War]] thriller), ''Taskmaster,'' ''Code of Arms,'' and ''The Hahnemann Sequela.'' And under the pen name "Brian Harris" he novelized the miniseries ''World War III.''