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His best-known novel, Red Alert was written while a serving RAF officer, (hence the original use of a pseudonym: Peter Bryant – the Bryan being taken from his middle name). Drawn from personal experience, Red Alert was the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's classic film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Due to interest in nuclear themes sparked by Stanley Kramer's film version of On the Beach in 1959, the film rights to Red Alert were sold that year, only to be handed around until Stanley Kubrick bought them in 1962, reportedly for as little as $3,500.
Peter George co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Kubrick and Terry Southern, but wasn't completely satisfied with the overall satirical feel of the movie. After the film was released, he wrote a novelisation of Dr. Strangelove and dedicated it to Kubrick.
George later wrote another novel to denounce the use of nuclear weapons, entitled Commander-1. He died in 1966 when he was working on his next novel, Nuclear Survivors.
In 1958 Cool Murder was copyrighted. This was translated into German (with the title Die verschwundenen Perlen – the disappeared pearls) by Magdalena Sobez and published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, München. The back cover says that at age 11 he enrolled at an English International School. Die verschwundenen Perlen is a Mike Hammer type detective story set in Pacific City (Los Angeles) in the 1950s.
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