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Sample of authors
Cash, Wiley
Wiley Cash is an American crime writer. His first two novels went on to become bestsellers with a general appeal. He was born in Gastonia, North Carolina, where he grew up and attended high school. At eighteen, he went on to read a BA in literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, graduating in 2000. He continued to study for an MA in English at the University of North Carolina,...
Literary figures
Daniel Calder
Gender: Male
Like his colleague, Samuel Behrens, he is a friendly, elderly gentleman – and one of the most cold-blooded and skilful executioners working for the British counter intelligence service. The two are the main characters in a number of commended short stories – but no novels – by Michael Gilbert. They live in the same village in the county of Kent, and are bachelors, but Calder (who is an expert on w...