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Portrait image of Geoffrey Household Photo: Paul McNicholls / Camera Press / TT (1979)

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Household, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Edward West Household grew up in Bristol where he attended Clifton College in 1914–19. He went on to study English at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1922. Immediately afterwards, he worked for a bank in Bucharest, Romania. In 1926, he moved to Spain where he sold bananas for a fruit company. In 1929, he went to the United States where he became a travelling salesman in printing i...

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Evan Tanner

Gender: Male

Tanner is an agent working for a service that is so secret that not even the CIA knows about it, they take him for a Soviet spy. When he first appears in a novel by Lawrence Block, Tanner has not slept for the past ten years due to having sustained a severe brain injury in the Korean War. He is cryogenically frozen in 1970, thawed up in 1997 and continues to pursue his career as a tough, smart...

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