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book page (Jack Thompson; born in the north of England; joined the BBC; foreign correspondent for the World Service; in 1995 became a newscaster with Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin; since 2002, devoted himself to writing; won the Scottish Association of Writers Pitlochry Award for Crimewriting with his thriller A Wicked Device; lives in London)