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{{dambigbox|text=This article is about '''a fictional character'''. For other persons named '''John Craig''', see [[John Craig (disambiguation)]].}} | {{dambigbox|text=This article is about '''a fictional character'''. For other persons named '''John Craig''', see [[John Craig (disambiguation)]].}} | ||
'''John Craig''' is the name of an exceptionally competent, tough-minded British agent who is the fictional hero of four superior spy thrillers written in the late 1960s and early 1970s by [[James Munro]]. Born in the [[Tyneside]] area of northeast England in 1924 and orphaned early in life, he joined the elite, and extra-tough, [[Special Boat Service]] in 1941 at the age of 17. By the time the war ended in 1945, he was a lieutenant with two decorations and three times mentioned in dispatches.<ref>''The Man Who Sold Death'', Alfred E. Knopf, New York, 1966, page 19</ref> | '''John Craig''' is the name of an exceptionally competent, tough-minded British agent who is the fictional hero of four superior spy thrillers written in the late 1960s and early 1970s by [[James Munro]]. Born in the [[Tyneside]] area of northeast England in 1924 and orphaned early in life, he joined the elite, and extra-tough, [[Special Boat Service]] in 1941 at the age of 17. By the time the war ended in 1945, he was a lieutenant with two decorations and three times mentioned in dispatches.<ref>''The Man Who Sold Death'', Alfred E. Knopf, New York, 1966, page 19</ref> When the first book opens, in April, 1961, he is a wealthy, but still extremely tough, gunrunner, secretly furnishing arms from all over Europe to the Algerian insurgents battling to win independence from France. | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:44, 13 June 2009
This article is about a fictional character. For other persons named John Craig, see John Craig (disambiguation).
John Craig is the name of an exceptionally competent, tough-minded British agent who is the fictional hero of four superior spy thrillers written in the late 1960s and early 1970s by James Munro. Born in the Tyneside area of northeast England in 1924 and orphaned early in life, he joined the elite, and extra-tough, Special Boat Service in 1941 at the age of 17. By the time the war ended in 1945, he was a lieutenant with two decorations and three times mentioned in dispatches.[1] When the first book opens, in April, 1961, he is a wealthy, but still extremely tough, gunrunner, secretly furnishing arms from all over Europe to the Algerian insurgents battling to win independence from France.
References
- ↑ The Man Who Sold Death, Alfred E. Knopf, New York, 1966, page 19