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Crais, Robert

Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a family of police officers and oil workers, and he was destined to work with either one or the other. He began to study engineering at Louisiana State University, but soon discovered that it was not for him.
He discovered Raymond Chandler at the age of fifteen and he...

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Peter Shaw

Gender: Male

A policeman’s son and newly appointed detective who discovers that his partner on his first case in Norfolk is his father’s old companion, the hard-skinned and chain-smoking veteran George Valentine. The pair often have different views, but they respect each other. Peter Shaw is almost 190 cm tall, and has one eye after an accident. He is married to the beautiful lawyer Lena from Jamaica, so aut...

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