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Patterson, James
The American author, James Patterson, was born and grew up in Newburgh in the State of New York. His father was an insurance clerk and his mother a teacher. After state schooling, he studied at Manhattan College in the Bronx, New York, and took his B.A in 1969. He started at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and got his M.A in English in 1970. He then dropped his studies, moved back...
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Jack Butler
Gender: Male
Colonel John ‘Jack’ Butler has a high position in the secret British intelligence service. He has red hair (which is closely cropped), and is a conscientious and patriotic professional. He has three red-haired daughters, but his wife Madeleine Françoise de Latour d’Auray Butler vanished without trace and is presumed dead. Her husband is suspected of having killed her in one of Anthony Price’s spy...