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Every Spy A Traitor: Alex Gerlis Interviewed by Alan Bardos
The two spy authors discuss Alex's new series beginning in the inter-war period.
In your new book Every Spy a Traitor you move away from a World War II/Post War setting and focus purely on a ‘Cold War’ with the Soviet Union in the 1930s. What was it that attracted you to the period? I liked the idea of a series that covered a longer time span,...
Agent in the Shadows, by Alex Gerlis
The final Wolf Pack novel from the master spy novelist.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I thought Jack Miller and Sophia von Naundorf had made it through to peacetime at the end of Agent in Peril. Not a bit of it – they still have their most exciting and dangerous mission before them, and what could be their most...
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Spy author Alex Gerlis writes about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that partly inspired his novel Agent in Peril.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising In all my novels, there are a number of plot lines which converge at the end of the book, but in my new book, Agent in Peril the core plot is based around the Battle of the Ruhr in 1943, the RAF’s bombing campaign from March-July that year...
Action This Day: A WW2 Short Story Collection
A new collection from Aspects of History features some of the best novelists writing about the Second World War.
As the coronation of Charles III approaches, Action This Day ploughs us back into a time of risk, uncertainty and unthinkable steaks. The era of the Second World War might’ve been rife with struggle, but there was more than just that; individual stories, people,...
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Alex Gerlis & Agent in Peril
Alex Gerlis
Alex Gerlis was a BBC journalist for nearly thirty years and is the author of nine Second World war espionage thrillers, all published by Canelo.
His first four novels are in the acclaimed Spy Masters series, including the best-selling The Best of Our Spies which is currently being developed as a television series. Prince of Spies was published in March 2020 and was followed by three more in the Prince series. His latest series is the Wolf Pack novels, with Agent in Berlin published in November 2021 and the second in the series due to be published in July 2022, Agent in Peril July 2022 and Agent in the Shadows in February 2023. Alex’s books have sold more than 500,000 copies.
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The British Nazi
Benson Freeman was an RAF officer and a member of Oswald Mosley's fascists, but from there he graduated to full-blown treason.
Benson Railton Metcalf Freeman looked every bit the archetypal English officer and gentleman: serious, smartly dressed, complete with the moustache that was so fashionable among RAF officers in the early days of the Second World War. Born in 1903, the son of a Royal...
Alex Gerlis
Alex Gerlis discusses espionage, his inspiration, and his writing.
Alex Gerlis, what prompted you to choose the period that you wrote your first book in? The Best of Our Spies was the first of my (nine) novels and I wrote it after I covered the 50th Anniversary of D-Day for the BBC in 1994. I spent some time out in Normandy and...