On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Etienne Borgers wrote:
> > > It got me wondering how many hard-boiled
writers
> > had been in
> > >combat.
> One of the main examples was John D Mc Donald
who
> served in the OSS, collecting intelligence in the
Far
> East (WW2),
Alan Caillou AKA Alan Lyle-Smythe was in the British
Intelligence during the war, at first in Palestine and then
in Yugoslavia, where he organized with the partisans (Tito's
or someone else's, I don't know). Caillou was the cover name
he used in operations and he thought it had made him lucky,
so he changed the name and became an author and an actor.
There's a complete biography of Caillou in IMDB.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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