#Spythriller

Shaun Lewis

John Buchan - Author of 'The 39 Steps'

Yesterday, I was very privileged to visit the village of Elsfield in Oxfordshire, where the author John Buchan once lived and his ashes...

Shaun Lewis

The First 'C' - Head of MI6

The current and all past heads of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) are and have been known as 'C', for "Chief", but the first...

Shaun Lewis

The German U-Boat Blockade of Britain

Today (4th February) in 1915, the German government announced that it would impose a submarine blockade of Great Britain with effect 18th...

Shaun Lewis

The Foundations for MI5 and MI6

Both of today’s security services, namely MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service (known popularly as MI6) derive from the original...

Shaun Lewis

ANNOUNCING MY NEW HISTORICAL THRILLER - DUE OUT 17 DECEMBER 2018

My new book will be launched in just under two weeks' time. It tells the tale of a young man's reluctant entry into Britain's embryonic...

Shaun Lewis

Taster of my new novel - Now the Darkness Gathers

With just five weeks to go before the publication of my pre-WW1 espionage thriller, Now the Darkness Gathers, here is a taster of what...

Shaun Lewis

German spies in Britain before WW1

In all my writing, I have three aims; to entertain, to inform and to inspire. To achieve the latter two objectives, I carry out...

Shaun Lewis

My Next Book - Now the Darkness Gathers

I have just sent the final proofs back to my publisher for the next novel in my series about the Miller family in WW1. It was odd to read...