Martin Booth’s fictional history of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen arrested for spying in the Soviet Union in the early 1950s
Martin Booth
An internationally renowned writer and biographer, Martin Booth was also an accomplished novelist
His novel The Industry of Souls was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1998. His penultimate book was Cannabis: A History, and he died in February 2004 shortly after completing Gweilo.