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Sample of authors
Haynes, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art History at the University of Leicester. She then worked in a number of different professions including car sales and the medical industry, and as an au pair in Berlin in 1989 before she was employed as a police intelligence analyst for Kent Police. She attended a creative...
Literary figures
Evan Tanner
Gender: Male
Tanner is an agent working for a service that is so secret that not even the CIA knows about it, they take him for a Soviet spy. When he first appears in a novel by Lawrence Block, Tanner has not slept for the past ten years due to having sustained a severe brain injury in the Korean War. He is cryogenically frozen in 1970, thawed up in 1997 and continues to pursue his career as a tough, smart...