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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.

Alex Gerlis

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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.

Alex Gerlis

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

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...

Agent in Berlin, by Alex Gerlis

A new espionage novel set in Berlin is released

David Boyle

I’m not sure who it was that first used this particular formula for good historical fiction – and especially espionage fiction. The idea is that you choose a peculiarly mysterious or ambiguous moment in recent history and then you weave your plot around it. William...

Agent in Berlin: Alex Gerlis Interview

The author of the acclaimed Spies series chatted with us about his new novel, Agent in Berlin

Alex Gerlis

Alex Gerlis, Agent in Berlin opens with the attack on Pearl Harbor – you’ve described it brilliantly – did you research provide you with first hand accounts of this shocking event? With Pearl Harbor I was more concerned to get the details of the day correct,...

Football and the Nazis

The Nazis were only to keen to use football as propaganda. The author of a new novel set in the period digs deeper.

Alex Gerlis

Football and the Nazis Think of the Nazis and sport and it’s usually the 1936 Berlin Olympics which comes to mind, with the Games turned into a sophisticated in propaganda exercise, which the International Olympic Committee and too many participant countries happily...