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Crais, Robert

Robert Crais is an American author born in Independence, Louisiana, and brought up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a family of police officers and oil workers, and he was destined to work with either one or the other. He began to study engineering at Louisiana State University, but soon discovered that it was not for him.
He discovered Raymond Chandler at the age of fifteen and he...

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Zack Walker

Gender: Male

Science-fiction writer and journalist, and an over-protective and virtually paranoid family father. He does everything so that his wife, Susan, and their two children shall be safe and secure, but his creator Linwood Barclay lets him time after time become entangled in complicated murder mysteries in a farcical manner. Which means that Zack Walter must act the amateur detective so that his...

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