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Deaver, Jeffery

Jeffery Deaver is an American author of mystery novels born in Glen Ellyn near Chicago, Illinois. Having been born to a family with cultural interests, he enjoyed music and books as a child. When he was eleven years old, he began to write a novel that was left unfinished, he edited the high school literary magazine and contributed to the school magazine. He later read journalism at the...

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Mickey Zondi

Gender: Male

After having worked as a servant in a white household, Mickey Zondi, who is from the Zulu people, gets a job with the police in fictive Trekkersburg in South Africa in the days of apartheid. In the books by James McClure, he becomes an assistant to the very brutal Boer , Tromp Kramer, but gradually an understanding develops between them, and they become good friends. Zondi is young, intelligent...

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