https://www.edwardwilson.info/contact daily 0.75 2020-09-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/1599469270623-HZK22JZYA4FYZVKMWX4V/Covehithe+006.jpg Contact https://www.edwardwilson.info/home daily 1.0 2023-06-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/1599141274537-1F7E7MND8M3MCG1UEYRL/Portrait+cover.png Home - A Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man The woman leaned forward and put her left hand on the driver’s shoulder. ‘You’ve been magnificent. Thank you for your help – and remember this is our secret.’ The driver blushed. ‘At your service, gnädige Frau.’ ‘You should call me madame. I am French.’ The woman leaned further forward as if she were going to give the German soldier a collaborator’s kiss. The soldier’s blushing smile turned into an agonised grimace as the downward thrust of the knife cut deep through his chest into the aorta. As soon as Catesby saw what was happening, he put his hand over the driver’s mouth to muffle his ear-splitting scream. They waited half a minute until the driver had stopped twitching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/04305d85-86ff-492d-933f-0ef944d593ba/DSC01639.jpg Home - Edward Wilson The author of eight books and six previous novels in the Catesby series. As a commentator and reviewer, he has written for The Independent, Tribune Magazine, The Guardian and Open Democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/1599140533774-A9KZO2QX08R7ZDDTTNO8/Portrait+of+the+Spy+as+a+young+man+banner.png Home https://www.edwardwilson.info/about daily 0.75 2020-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/1599477452612-HW3IBU6HTWKN12U90W8J/Vietnam13.jpg About Vietnam 1970 - Waiting for a helicopter to collect captured weapons, explosives and unearthed landmines after losing two soldiers in an ambush. Photo taken by Wilson’s interpreter, Ly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/1600685366098-MHDRPK72VN549H5RCX13/Edward+Wilson+credit+Sarah+Lucy+Brown+.jpg About An atom bomb testing bunker on Orford Ness, Suffolk. 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When that mole reports that a Soviet spy ring in London is no longer sending intelligence to Moscow, MI6 are worried. ‘...espionage and geopolitical history rewritten by Evelyn Waugh.’ The Sunday Times ‘Fact and fiction blend into great storytelling’ Tribune https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f50ef81495a8d15c291f4e1/1600684862155-GSG4MWI5IYV9U6BCF11P/Midnight+Swimmer Books - THE MIDNIGHT SWIMMER Catesby is a spy with a big anti-establishment chip on his shoulder. He loves his country, but despises the class who run it. Loathed by the Americans and trusted by the Russians, Catesby is sent to Havana and Washington to make clandestine contacts. ‘an intellectually commanding thriller which does well those things that thrillers are supposed to do, but adds a mordant wit, and a poignant sense of the human cost. 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