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Kallentoft, Mons
Mons Kallentoft is a Swedish writer and journalist born in Ljungsbro near Linköping. He began to write at the age of fourteen when he was bed-ridden after an operation. After leaving school he worked in Sweden for a while. He then moved to Madrid in order to write. While there he worked on the draft of his debut novel Pesetas (2000). By the time it was published he was back in Sweden where he ...
Literary figures
Hap Collins
Gender: Male
After, among other things, a spell in prison as a conscientious objector – he abhors violence and racism – the quiet, middle-aged Hap Collins is employed as an investigator by his now-and-then girlfriend Brett Sawyer’s detective agency. He works in a two-man team with Vietnam-veteran Leonard Pine in a whole row of stories by Joe R. Lansdale. They are an odd pair who, despite Collins’ calm manner,...