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Sample of authors
Deighton, Len
The British author Len Deighton was born as Leonard Cyril Deighton in London. His father was a chauffeur; his mother worked in a hotel kitchen. He was a boy when he helped his father as a volunteer during the London Blitz. After leaving school he worked briefly as a railway clerk, and at the age of seventeen he joined the Royal Air Force Special Investigation Branch as a photographer. He then...
Literary figures
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...