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Macdonald, Ross

Ross Macdonald is a pseudonym for the American-Canadian crime writer Kenneth Millar. He was born in Los Gatos, California, but he grew up in his parents’ native Canada. His parents divorced shortly after the family moved there, and during childhood Macdonald constantly changed homes, living with his mother who was in poor health. He later wrote that he had figured out that he, up until the age o...

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Tiger Mann

Gender: Male

He was actually christened Tiger, and is an arch-reactionary secret agent in a handful of novels by Mickey Spillane. Mann reminds one a lot of Spillane’s hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer, but there are some elements of James Bond in him too. During the war, he was active in the OSS, and was then recruited by a private, secret organisation which provides ‘heavy’ support for American projects inter...

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