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Patterson, James

The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...

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Luke Pagan

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He was a quiet, somewhat naïve but ambitious police officer in England when the First World War started and he was transferred to a newly-created intelligence department thanks to his knowledge of languages. During the war, Luke Pagan – together with the jolly Joe Narrabone who doesn’t hesitate to make use of ‘unorthodox’ methods – struggles against spies and other enemies in three historical nove...

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