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Auster, Paul

American author from a Jewish family, born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents, Queenie and Samuel Auster, came from Poland. His father worked as a landlord. The family lived a simple middle-class life, but the marriage was unhappy. Queenie was thirteen years younger than Samuel when she married, and the couple were on the whole strangers to each other. Queenie Auster wanted to leave her husband,...

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David Audley

Gender: Male

He is a big man, looks like an academic, which he is too: David Audley has a Ph.D and is an historian specialising in the Middle Ages. He is also an analyst with the British counter intelligence services in a series of novels by Anthony Price. Already in the first book, Audley meets his future wife Faith. He finds it hard to obey orders and works more by intuition than with logic – but he s...

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