Wallace of the Secret Service
By (Author) Alexander Wilson
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
1st April 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.912
Paperback
388
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Extreme Nationalists are fighting to relinquish the British government's power in Egypt. Secret agent Henderson, deployed to Egypt to assess the trouble, sends a coded message to say he's on the trail of something big. But there's been no word since.
'a romping read ... James Bond may find he has a worthy rival' Daily Mail
Alexander Wilson was a writer, spy and secret service officer. He served in the First World War before moving to India to teach as a Professor of English Literature, and began writing spy novels whilst there. During WW2, Wallace worked as an intelligence agent. He enjoyed great success and notoriety for his writing in the 1940s, with reviews in the Telegraph, Observer, Scotsman and the Times Literary Supplement. He died in 1963.