William Haggard

William Haggard (11 August 1907 – 27 October 1993) was the pseudonym of Richard Henry Michael Clayton an English civil servant and writer of fictional spy thrillers[1]. He was born in Croydon.

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Writing career

His books were set in the 1960s through the 1980s.[2] Like C. P. Snow, he was a quintessentially British establishment figure who had been a civil servant in India, and his books vigorously put forth his perhaps idiosyncratic points of view. The principal character in most of his novels was Colonel Charles Russell of the fictional Security Executive. During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field.

Books

Colonel Charles Russell series

Other novels

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