Edward Wilson's Books
Jan.28.2012
From the Independent:
Such was the missile gap in the early Sixties that if the US had attacked the Soviet Union the only Soviet response would have been a strike against Western Europe. It made sense for MI6, then, to trick the US into thinking that the Soviets were more advanced than they were. This is the premise for Edward Wilson’s brilliant third novel that takes...
Jul.08.2011
Fournier was being very naughty and it was important that the Brits got to him before the Americans, who had the evidence to blackmail him all the way to the Ninth Circle of Hell, where traitors were frozen in ice for all eternity.
"Wilson's smart, finely written sequel to The Envoy mines an underutilized place and period of cold war history: Berlin, 1956. ...will delight...
There are no fast cars in my books and no glitzy gadgets, but there is betrayal, marital infidelity, conspiracy and ruthlessness. I tell the truth about espionage and foreign policy – and relationships too. My characters operate in the murky cellars of Realpolitik. Allies are sometimes sacrificed, while enemies are embraced. The moments of joy and intimacy are rare, but all the more genuine for that.
My books are largely about outsiders in a dangerous world. As one critic wrote of Catesby, the main character in my last two novels: ‘Like all outsiders, he is forced constantly to observe and notice, purely to survive.’
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—Edward Wilson
About Edward
Edward Wilson is a native of Baltimore. He studies International Relations on a U.S. Army scholarship. He later served as a Special Forces officer in Vietnam. He was decorated for his part in rescuing wounded Vietnamese soldiers from a minefield. After...