He did his secondary education at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before going on to the University of Virginia on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarship.
[3] After the war, Wilson travelled in Canada and later spent time in Bremen, West Germany as a labourer in a shipyard and a nursing assistant in a hospital.
Catesby's incredible story recounts a life of spying and the trauma of war, but also lost love, yearning, and hope for the future.
Its protagonist is Kit Fournier, the Central Intelligence Agency station chief at the Embassy of the United States, London.
[9] In Wilson's 2011 novel The Darkling Spy, the year is 1956, and Catesby is serving under official cover at the British Embassy in Bonn.
Kit Fournier from The Envoy appears again, but in this book he has fallen in love with an English woman who serves as a spy for Moscow, and is considering defection.
Publishers Weekly compared Catesby to the John le Carré character George Smiley, and stated that he "will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers".