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The Liberator. The Liberator was created by “Norman Deane,” the pseudonym of John Creasey (The Baron, Sexton Blake, Patrick Dawlish, Department Z, Dixon Hawke, Bruce Murdoch, Doctor Palfrey, The Toff, Roger West), and appeared in Return to Adventure (1943), Gateway to Escape (1944), and Come Home to Crime (1945).

During World War Two Crispian “Cris” St. Clare is an R.A.F. aviator and agent of F2, an espionage agency attached to the Ministry of Economic Warfare. St. Clare has an intense loathing for the Germans. When he flies to France, to bring every French soldier back to England (which is how he gets the nickname “The Liberator”), he goes out of his way to kill as many Germans as he can. St. Clare is light-hearted and whimsical except when it comes to war, at which point he becomes vengeful, grim, and even bloodthirsty. He is aided by Norman Deane, a spy for the Foreign Office who doubles as The Voice, the leading anti-German broadcaster for the B.B.C.

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