BEECHING, Jack

BEECHING, Jack
(1922-)
   UK writer, mostly of poetry, and (with his first wife) of juveniles as James Barbary. His novel The Dakota Project (1968) is a TECHNOTHRILLER whose eponymous government project contains top secrets of borderline sf interest.
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