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Sample of authors
Sendker, Jan-Philipp
Jan-Philipp Sendker is a German journalist and author. From 1990 to 1995, he was the correspondent in America for the German magazine Stern. From 1995 to 1999 he was the magazine’s Asian correspondent and from 1999 he has worked full-time as an author. He lives in Potsdam outside Berlin with his wife and three children. Jan-Philipp Sendker is fascinated by Asia and has made several journeys in C...
Literary figures
Joe Ryker
Gender: Male
A worn-out but effective police detective in New York, accustomed to violence and for that reason always armed with two revolvers. He is a disillusioned lone wolf and the main character in a suite of novels by Jack Cannon (pseudonym for Nelson DeMille). Disagreement about rights, however, meant that for a while several authors wrote books about Joe Ryker – and DeMille was forced to re-name his h...