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Portrait of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Photo: Andreu Dalmau / AP Photo/EFE /TT (2003)

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Vázquez Montalbán, Manuel

Spanish author, journalist, essayist and poet. Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona the same year as General Franco came out of the civil war victorious. He belonged to that generation of Spaniards who did not get to know what it means to live in a democracy until their middle ages. Until his death in 1975, Franco ran a hard dictatorship with censorship and with capital punishment or i...

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Christopher McKee

Gender: Male

Middle-aged detective inspector in Manhattan of Scottish ancestry, and the main character in a long row of police novels by Helen Reilly. He is tall with a large head, dark hair and brown eyes. Christopher Mckee – called the Scotsman in the force – is known for being tough but just. He is a gruff, sometimes hard, interrogator, but can be both friendly and humorous. He is single – and has little in...

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