Photo: Titti Fabi / Camera Press/TT (2005)
Sample of authors
Lansdale, Joe R.
American author, combat athlete and self-defence expert, born and raised in Gladewater, Texas. The incredibly productive Joe R. (Richard) Lansdale has written novels and short stories in many different genres: westerns, horror, science fiction, children’s books, erotica, fantasy, crime, thrillers etc. He has also written screenplays for TV and texts for several graphic series. He is, however, p...
Literary figures
Charlie Hood
Gender: Male
He is employed by the Los Angeles police, but has been lent out to the federal police and works for them in the border areas between the USA and Mexico in most of the books about him by T. Jefferson Parker. Charlie Hood is young, good-looking but with an everyday appearance, and lives alone. The great love of his life, the criminal Suzanne Jones, is killed already in the first novel. In his...