After he received an inheritance on the death of his grandmother he traveled to Europe and Great Britain where he unavailingly tried to gain ground as a painter and writer.

In 2005, he was appointed to the board of the National Trust and served on the advisory council for the setting up of an Academy of Arts, Letters, Culture and Public Affairs of the University of Trinidad and Tobago.

[5] Besson's work as a historian covers various aspects of Trinidadian and Tobagonian history and culture which can partly be traced back to research assignments from various companies and institutions.

A core element of his fictional work is the history of the Afro-French-Creole presence in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean, the ethnic group from which his family originates.

This novel depicts the life of Philippe Rose Roume de Saint-Laurent, a French adventurer who had a significant influence on the development of Spanish Trinidad in the late 18th century.

Trinidadian TV channel TTT financed the production of The Land of Beginnings as a three-part documentary.

His 2010 non-fiction book The Cult of Will was the subject of controversy, as it sought to deconstruct the narrative of former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister Eric Williams with regard to the emancipation of the slaves in the British Empire.