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Koontz, Dean R.

Dean Ray Koontz is an American author of suspense literature. He was born in Everett, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a dysfunctional family with a violent, alcoholic father and a suppressed mother. He found comfort in reading and watching movies, and he began to write short stories, which he sold to friends and relatives when he was eight years old. He attended Shippensburg State College (now...

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Kek Huuygens

Gender: Male

During the Second World War, he fought in the resistance movement in the Netherlands, but now the broad-shouldered man is, according to author Robert L. Fish, the world’s foremost smuggler. Kek Huuygens – born Polish, but with a genuine American passport and an acquired Dutch name – is dark and handsome with cold, grey eyes, and a bachelor since his former wife betrayed him for another man and a l...

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