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Vachss, Andrew H.

Andrew Henry Vachss was an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up on Long Island. His mother read extensively to him as a child, and he started to collect books as a teenager. One of his eyes was damaged in a playground accident when he was seven years old, and although he was not blind in that eye, he wore an eye patch to exclude unsettling light...

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Nate Heller

Gender: Male

His father was a police officer and Nathan ‘Nate’ Heller was one too. But he allowed himself to be corrupted, and instead became a successful private detective in the gangster-infected Chicago of the 1930s. He is of early middle age, morally rather lax, but he has a pleasant attitude and socialises with some of the city’s (real!) artists and criminals in a series of stories by Max Allan Collins.

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