The UK’s Security Service, MI5, have taken the rare step of responding to requests for any information on Alexander Wilson in their archives. This followed a letter sent by Wilson biographer, Professor Tim Crook, to the Director-General of the Service on the invitation of Home Office Minister Ben Wallace. MI5 say: Although it is longstanding…
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MI5 consider release of files as Mrs Wilson TV series broadcast across USA
The three part dramatisation of Mrs Wilson starring ‘Alec’ Alexander Wilson’s granddaughter Ruth Wilson is being broadcast across North America on the PBS network in Masterpiece. See the Q and A with biographer Professor Tim Crook on the PBS online platform by clicking on this line. The much acclaimed series has also been nominated for…
Interview with Professor Tim Crook- biographer of Alexander Wilson
The US and International edition of the biography of ‘Alec’ Alexander Wilson, The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent: Second Edition (January 2019) is now available at amazon.com and other global online sellers for $24.75, usually available to ship in 1 to 2 days. How did you become involved in researching Alexander Wilson? A childhood…
The mysterious life of Alexander Wilson 1893-1963
The US and International edition of the biography of ‘Alec’ Alexander Wilson, The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent: Second Edition (January 2019) is now available at amazon.com and other global online sellers for $24.75, usually available to ship in 1 to 2 days. Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson was born in Dover on the 24th…
The writing career of Alexander Wilson
The US and International edition of the biography of ‘Alec’ Alexander Wilson, The Secret Lives of a Secret Agent: Second Edition (January 2019) is now available at amazon.com and other global online sellers for $24.75, usually available to ship in 1 to 2 days. Beginnings and First Novels Alexander Wilson first enjoyed success with writing…
Christmas in Wallace of the Secret Service novels
Christmas features in two Wallace of the Secret Service novels by Alexander Wilson. In ‘The Devil’s Cocktail’ (published in 1928) the British Secret Service agent, Captain Hugh Shannon, sent to India to combat a deadly plot by Soviet Agents, is summoned on Christmas Day to be told to leave his role as a Professor of…
Chronicles of the Secret Service – three Wallace spy stories in one in 1940
Chronicles of the Secret Service was first published by Herbert Jenkins in 1940. This is how they explained ‘What This Story Is About’: Such novels as Wallace of the Secret Service, Get Wallace, His Excellency Governor Wallace and Wallace Intervenes have achieved their extraordinary wide sales not only because they are thrillers of the front…
Wallace at Bay – Secret Service war against terrorists in London 1938
‘Wallace at Bay’ is about gripping counter-intelligence operations taking place in and around the Little Venice area of Maida Vale- in streets and locations wholly familiar to Alexander Wilson during the last 1930s. This is a novel that gives the reader an evocative and realistic experience of being on the streets of London in 1938….
Microbes of Power – deadly espionage in Cyprus 1937
“Microbes of Power” is a pioneering espionage novel analysing the threat to world peace posed by biological weapons. It was unique in the Secret Service thriller genre of the 1930s to explore the threat posed by using bacteria and viruses in war. The novel also stood out for offering positive representation of women intelligence agents…
His Excellency Governor Wallace – Secret Service battle in Hong Kong in 1936
Alexander Wilson’s 1936 Wallace of the Secret Service novel switches the dramatic fight to preserve the British Empire by Sir Leonard Wallace to what was then the highly lucrative colony of Hong Kong- on lease from China. Herbert Jenkins explained ‘What This Story Is About’: Although some months separated the publications of Alexander Wilson’s rousing…
Get Wallace! Alexander Wilson’s fourth Secret Service novel published in 1934
‘Get Wallace’ firmly established Alexander Wilson’s fictional British Secret Service as something English speaking readers could identify with. It was rapidly becoming an imaginative force policing the world and keeping people safe from the evils of organised crime. The first publisher Herbert Jenkins explained ‘What This Story Is About’ Sir Leonard Wallace, the famous chief…
Mystery of Tunnel 51 – the first Wallace of the Secret Service novel 1928
The first publishers of Alexander Wilson’s first novel ‘The Mystery of Tunnel 51’ issued the following details about the book in their periodical for libraries and the book-trade called ‘Longmans List’: Notes on Books, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, July 1928 The Mystery of Tunnel 51 By Alexander Wilson, Crown 8vo, pp. vi + 345,…
Alexander Wilson - Author, Adventurer and Spy 