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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
Charlie Hood
Gender: Male
He is employed by the Los Angeles police, but has been lent out to the federal police and works for them in the border areas between the USA and Mexico in most of the books about him by T. Jefferson Parker. Charlie Hood is young, good-looking but with an everyday appearance, and lives alone. The great love of his life, the criminal Suzanne Jones, is killed already in the first novel. In his...