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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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Samuel Behrens

Gender: Male

Together with his colleague Daniel Calder, he forms one of the most lethal teams in British counter intelligence. Otherwise, he is an elderly, typically British gentleman, who busies himself with bee-keeping, plays chess and lives with an aunty in a little village in the county of Kent. Samuel Behrens is a linguistic expert, but like Calder is also a skilled car-driver and a clever detective,...

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