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Sample of authors
Japrisot, Sébastien
Pseudonym for the French author, translator and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Rossi who was born in Marseille to Italian parents. After his father left the family, Japrisot was educated at a Jesuit school and then read philosophy at Sorbonne. He was an intelligent, but rebellious student prone to skipping lectures. At the age of sixteen, he began his debut novel, The False Start (1950, Les mal...
Literary figures
Samuel Behrens
Gender: Male
Together with his colleague Daniel Calder, he forms one of the most lethal teams in British counter intelligence. Otherwise, he is an elderly, typically British gentleman, who busies himself with bee-keeping, plays chess and lives with an aunty in a little village in the county of Kent. Samuel Behrens is a linguistic expert, but like Calder is also a skilled car-driver and a clever detective,...