William Stevenson was a Royal Navy fighter pilot in World War Two and later worked for Sir William Stephenson and wrote a book about him (A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War, originally published in 1976 and reissued by Lyons Press in 2009 with a foreword by Ronald Reagan). He has been a foreign correspondent in Russia, China, India and other parts of Asia and Africa, as well as the author of 16 books. He is currently working on his memoirs.