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Sample of authors
Burke, James Lee
James Lee Burke is an American author of Irish descent born in Houston, Texas, and brought up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. His father died in a road accident when James Lee Burke was eighteen years old. Burke enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1955 and transferred to the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1957, where he read journalism and graduated with...
Literary figures
Luke Pagan
Gender: Male
He was a quiet, somewhat naïve but ambitious police officer in England when the First World War started and he was transferred to a newly-created intelligence department thanks to his knowledge of languages. During the war, Luke Pagan – together with the jolly Joe Narrabone who doesn’t hesitate to make use of ‘unorthodox’ methods – struggles against spies and other enemies in three historical nove...