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Portrait of Colin Forbes Photo: United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images (1983)

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Forbes, Colin

Colin Forbes is the pseudonym of the British author Raymond Harold Sawkins who was born in Hampstead, London. His first published novel, Snow on High Ground (1966), was followed by a string of novels of which some, like his first book, were published under his own name and others under the pseudonyms Richard Raine or Jay Bernard. He later denounced his early work and claims Tramp in Armour...

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Jack Butler

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Colonel John ‘Jack’ Butler has a high position in the secret British intelligence service. He has red hair (which is closely cropped), and is a conscientious and patriotic professional. He has three red-haired daughters, but his wife Madeleine Françoise de Latour d’Auray Butler vanished without trace and is presumed dead. Her husband is suspected of having killed her in one of Anthony Price’s spy...

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