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Sample of authors
Temple, Peter
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...
Literary figures
Liam Devlin
Gender: Male
In the 1940s, he was a hero in Ireland who fought for the IRA, but later became a freelance professional murderer and, for example, helps the German nazis and even later the British secret services. He also became a mentor for Sean Dillon, another of author Jack Higgins’ (pseudonym for Henry Patterson) literary agents. Liam Devlin is a short man, very lively, and has black hair and blue eyes.