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Portrait image of Harlan Coben Photo: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images (2017)

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Coben, Harlan

Harlan Coben is an American author who grew up in a Jewish family in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated from Livingston High School in 1980, and in 1984 he was awarded an MA in Political Science from Amherst College, Massachusetts, where he was also a prominent basketball player. He then worked as a guide at his grandfather’s travel agency before becoming a full-time author.
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Kek Huuygens

Gender: Male

During the Second World War, he fought in the resistance movement in the Netherlands, but now the broad-shouldered man is, according to author Robert L. Fish, the world’s foremost smuggler. Kek Huuygens – born Polish, but with a genuine American passport and an acquired Dutch name – is dark and handsome with cold, grey eyes, and a bachelor since his former wife betrayed him for another man and a l...

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