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Clancy, Tom

The American novelist Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. was born in Baltimore. His father worked for the United States Postal Service and his mother worked in a store’s credit department. He was educated at the Catholic Loyola Blakefield high school in Towson, Maryland, and at Loyola College, graduating with a degree in English Literature in 1969.
Tom Clancy specialised in novels about high-tech m...

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Amanda Pharrell

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One night as a college student, Amanda Pharrell had a nightmare in which she was being raped. In the darkness of her room she defended herself, and ended up stabbing someone to death – a young woman. Having spent seven years in prison, Amanda Pharrell has now reinvented herself as a private detective in a sparsely populated corner of Australia. Her Author Candice Fox describes her as being p...

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