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Sample of authors
Ambler, Eric
Eric Clifford Ambler was a British author and playwright born in London. His parents were music hall artists, and at the end of the 1920s he joined them on tour. He attended Colfe's Grammar School and studied engineering at University of London between 1925 and 1928. He entered the advertising business in the 1930s, in 1937 he became head of a London advertising agency and a year later he began...
Literary figures
Hack Bohannon
Gender: Male
A tall, slim private eye and former police officer with black hair like a native American, and who runs a horse ranch in California. His great sorrow is his wife, Linda, who is in a coma at a care home after being brutally raped. In the books by Joseph Hanse, Hack Bohannan is always dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, and he avoids contact with women. In general, he prefers animals rather than...