American-born novelist Edward Wilson writes the bestselling William Catesby series of spy thrillers, and it’s intriguing to learn that his British hero Catesby has plenty in common with Edward himself.
Catesby is a rough kid from the Lowestoft docks, a state-school-educated maverick in the rarified, publicschool-educated world of espionage and, in Catesby’s own description of himself, something of a two-faced bastard.