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Bill Watson Prolific author and gentleman journalist

THE novelist, playwright and journalist William Watson wrote what he called "serious fictions" under his own name and thrillers pseudonymously as J K Mayo, which one perceptive reviewer described as "Le Carre without the longueurs".

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