Tag: Secret Intelligence Service

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…

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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…

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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…

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Wallace of the Secret Service – third espionage volume published 1933

‘Wallace of the Secret Service’ was the first Alexander Wilson espionage novel featuring Sir Leonard Wallace and his global imperial counter-intelligence service published by Herbert Jenkins in 1933. Such was its popularity the volume went into a second imprint in 1939. Its success can be attributed to the structure of ten self-contained stories and adventures…

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