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Child, Lee

Lee Child is the pen name of the British author and television producer Jim Grant. He was born in Coventry as one of four brothers. When he was four years old, the family moved to Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, so the brothers were able to attend Orchard Primary School. When Jim was eleven years old he won a scholarship to King Edward’s School, after which he read law at the University of S...

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Carl Crader

Gender: Male

Middle-aged man who is the director of the American police organisation CIB (Computer Investigation Bureau). He reports directly to the White House and is on first-name terms with the president, according to author Edward D. Hoch. Little is known about Carl Crader’s private life, but he dyes his hair which has started to turn grey, and has two faithful members of staff: his assistant Earl Jazine a...

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