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James Albany
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Hugh Crauford Rae was born on November 22, 1935 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, son of Isobel and Robert Rae. He published his first stories aged 11 in the Robin comic, winning a cricket bat the same year in a children’s writing competition. After graduating from secondary school, he worked as an assistant in the antiquarian department of John Smith's bookshop. At work, he met her future wife, Elizabeth. Published since 1963, he started to wrote suspense novels as Hugh C. Rae, but he also used the pseudonyms of Robert Crawford, R.B. Houston, Stuart Stern (with S. Ungar) and James Albany. On 1973, his novel "The Shooting Gallery" was nominee by the Edgar Award. On 1974, he wrote the first few romance novels with Peggie Coghlan, using the popular pseudonym Jessica Stirling. However, when she retired 7 years after the first book was published, he continued writing more than 30 on his own, and also as Caroline Crosby. His female pseudonyms first became widely known in 1999, when "The Wind from the Hills" was shortlisted for Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Widowed nine years ago, Hugh died on September 24, 2014 at the age of 78.
Full Series List in Order
The Fighting Saga of SAS
1 - Warrior Caste (Jan-1982)2 - Mailed Fist (Jun-1982)
3 - Deacon's Dagger (Dec-1982)
4 - Close Combat (Apr-1983)
5 - Marching Fire (Apr-1983)
6 - Last Bastion (Feb-1984)
7 - Borneo Story (Feb-1984)
Book List in Order: 7 titles
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Warrior Caste
- Jan-1982
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Following Hitler's directives, a crack SS unit moves into St. Felice, France, to capture and English fugitive, while Lieutenant Deacon and Sergeant Campbell desperately attempt to deliver the fugitive from the German gauntlet of death...
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Mailed Fist
- Jun-1982
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The Caucasus in the bleak winter of 1942. In the numbing cold of the Lebanese Alps, Deacon, Campbell, and McNair, Special Air Service supreme strike team, pull of a daredevil rescue, saving a strategic Georgian colonel from snowbound death. This is t...
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Close Combat
- Apr-1983
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Malaya was somewhere that Deacon remembered well. Back in 1945, it was the last stop in his war. A raid on a Jap arms shipment that went badly wrong. The communist guerillas wanted the weaponry for their own operations and Deacon barely escaped wi...
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Marching Fire
- Apr-1983
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Malaya in 1952. Life for the SAS men is split between jungle fighting and between-ops breaks in Port Kernan. A sudden raid robs Buzz Campbell of his 17 year-old girl and sets Deacon on the trail of the terrorist warlord - Sand Shan....
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