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Sample of authors
Crais, Robert
Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a family of police officers and oil workers, and he was destined to work with either one or the other. He began to study engineering at Louisiana State University, but soon discovered that it was not for him.
He discovered Raymond Chandler at the age of fifteen and he...
Literary figures
Evan Tanner
Gender: Male
Tanner is an agent working for a service that is so secret that not even the CIA knows about it, they take him for a Soviet spy. When he first appears in a novel by Lawrence Block, Tanner has not slept for the past ten years due to having sustained a severe brain injury in the Korean War. He is cryogenically frozen in 1970, thawed up in 1997 and continues to pursue his career as a tough, smart...