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Sample of authors
Cody, Liza
Pseudonym for Liza Nassim, English crime fiction writer, born in London where she grew up. She had problems in school – it later transpired that she suffered from dyslexia, and so she put her efforts into an artistic career. She studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and the Royal Academy School of Art in London. For a while, she worked as a visual artist, but with little success, s...
Literary figures
Carl Hamilton
Gender: Male
The Swedish secret agent Carl Hamilton, code name Coq Rouge, was born in 1954 to an aristocratic family and later became a leftist activist. He trained as an attack diver and after being trained by the CIA he worked for the military intelligence organization OP5 and was later appointed director general of the Swedish Security Services. Hamilton is the protagonist in about a dozen bestselling...