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Sample of authors
Pronzini, Bill
The extremely prolific American author William John "Bill" Pronzini is the prize-winning author of over a hundred works of detective fiction, science fiction, western fiction, thrillers and horror fiction. He is also a renowned expert within these fields, and as such he has edited some hundred anthologies and short story collections by other authors. He has also published a large number of...
Literary figures
Hack Bohannon
Gender: Male
A tall, slim private eye and former police officer with black hair like a native American, and who runs a horse ranch in California. His great sorrow is his wife, Linda, who is in a coma at a care home after being brutally raped. In the books by Joseph Hanse, Hack Bohannan is always dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, and he avoids contact with women. In general, he prefers animals rather than...