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Sample of authors
Koontz, Dean R.
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a dysfunctional family with a violent, alcoholic father and a suppressed mother. He found comfort in reading and watching movies, and he began to write short stories, which he sold to friends and relatives when he was eight years old. He attended Shippensburg State College (now...
Literary figures
Rex Carver
Gender: Male
He isn’t considered to be good enough for the secret service, but when he opened his own detective agency they engaged him anyway – for a fee. He took on the job: Rex Carver adores money just as much as he does women. He has an office in London, where his secretary Hilda Wilkins sits, but he himself is often out and about. With him, Victor Canning created an original hybrid of a secret agent and h...