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Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man: A gripping WWII espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

Hardback | English

By (author): Edward Wilson

A thrilling spy novel by a former special forces officer who is ''poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre''

''The thinking person''s John le Carre'' Tribune

''Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre'' Irish Independent

''More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers'' Publishers Weekly


1941: a teenage William Catesby leaves Cambridge to join the army and support the war effort. Parachuted into Occupied France as an SOE officer, he witnesses tragedies and remarkable feats of bravery during the French Resistance.

2014: now in his nineties, Catesby recounts his life to his granddaughter for the first time. Their interviews weave together the historical, the personal and the emotional, skipping across different decades and continents to reveal a complex and conflicted man.

Catesby''s incredible story recounts a life of spying and the trauma of war, but also lost love, yearning, and hope for the future.

Praise for Edward Wilson:

''Stylistically sophisticated . . . Wilson knows how to hold the reader''s attention'' W.G. Sebald

''A reader is really privileged to come across something like this'' Alan Sillitoe

''All too often, amid the glitzy gadgetry of the spy thriller, all the fast cars and sexual adventures, we lose sight of the essential seriousness of what is at stake. John le Carre reminds us, often, and so does Edward Wilson'' Independent

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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 440g
  • Dimensions: 146 x 226mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Oct 2020
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781911350811

About Edward Wilson

Edward Wilson is a native of Baltimore. He studied International Relations on a US Army scholarship and later served as a Special Forces officer in Vietnam. He received the Army Commendation Medal with ''V'' for his part in rescuing wounded Vietnamese soldiers from a minefield. His other decorations include the Bronze Star and the Combat Infantryman''s Badge. After leaving the Army Wilson became an expatriate and gave up US nationality to become a British citizen. He has also lived and worked in Germany and France and was a post-graduate student at Edinburgh University. He now lives in Suffolk where he taught English and Modern Languages for thirty years.

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