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'''Colonel Charles Edward Russell''', generally known as '''Colonel Russell''' is an Anglo-Irish British army officer created by the British thriller writer [[William Haggard]] who, after [[World War II]], becomes head of an unobtrusive but occasionally lethal British counter-intelligence agency called the Security Executive. The Executive figures in 25 novels featuring Russell and in several others in which Russell is not a character. Haggard himself, who had served at least for a while as an Intelligence Office during the war called it "not entirely imaginary". Russell is presented as an unrepentant Establishment conservative but, perhaps because of his part Irish-heritage, is far from being a racist: in at least one of his books, he hopes that a Black "operator" of the Executive, [[William Wilberforce]] Smith, will become its head. | |||
In the first book, '''Slow Burner''' Russell' height is mentioned somewhere; he has "an abundant mustache"; he drinks whisky and soda before lunch; plays golf; smokes a pipe. | |||
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Colonel Charles Edward Russell, generally known as Colonel Russell is an Anglo-Irish British army officer created by the British thriller writer William Haggard who, after World War II, becomes head of an unobtrusive but occasionally lethal British counter-intelligence agency called the Security Executive. The Executive figures in 25 novels featuring Russell and in several others in which Russell is not a character. Haggard himself, who had served at least for a while as an Intelligence Office during the war called it "not entirely imaginary". Russell is presented as an unrepentant Establishment conservative but, perhaps because of his part Irish-heritage, is far from being a racist: in at least one of his books, he hopes that a Black "operator" of the Executive, William Wilberforce Smith, will become its head.
In the first book, Slow Burner Russell' height is mentioned somewhere; he has "an abundant mustache"; he drinks whisky and soda before lunch; plays golf; smokes a pipe.