Photo: Marc Femenia / TT (2008)
Sample of authors
Follett, Ken
British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of the Plymouth Brethren, and as a child he was not allowed to watch television. Instead he read profusely; his first favourite author was Shakespeare. Follett graduated from University College London in 1970 and began to write about rock music for the Cardiff-based South Wales E...
Literary figures
Charlie Muffin
Gender: Male
He was recruited by the British Intelligence Service already in the 1950s and since then has been a spy in a long suite of well-written, satirical novels by Brian Freemantle. But Charlie Muffin is no super-agent: he is shabby and looks so ordinary that nobody notices him. His bosses try to sacrifice him several times, and he is sometimes hunted just as eagerly by his own side as by the Russians.