David Esdaile Walker

David Esdaile Walker (born September 15, 1907 in Darjeeling , † October 24, 1968 in Malta ) was a British journalist , writer and in the news service.

Life and activity

David Esdaile Walker was the only child of Major General Sir Ernest Walker. He attended Roman Catholic boarding school, Ampleforth College, Yorkshire; then he attended Christ Church College, Oxford until he had to give up his studies in Oxford because of a serious illness (tuberculosis).

From 1936 to 1952, Walker was a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mirror . From 1939 to 1941 he was also the representative of the Reuters news agency for the Balkans. At the same time he was used by the British foreign intelligence service MI6 as a news agent in Switzerland, the Balkans and Greece. In 1940, Walker met the renegade SD agent Heinrich Pfeifer in Switzerland, and he gave him extensive inside information about the SS security service and the Gestapo. Walker later put the encounter with the mysterious agent Pfeifer at the center of a memory book that he wrote about his experiences in Switzerland in 1940. Based on the fact that the exciting encounter with the well-informed agent is the focus of his descriptions in this book, he gave the book the title Lunch with a Stranger , reminiscent of spy novels , whereby Pfeifer (who is called "Schneider" in the book ) as the man behind the eponymous Stranger was.

During 1943 and 1944, Walker was executive correspondent for the London Times and the Christian Science Monitor in Lisbon .

From 1955 to 1959, Walker was chief leader writer for the daily newspaper, The News Chronicle .

family

David Walker married the painter Rosalys Amie Campbell ("Osu") in Lisbon in 1943.

Fonts

• Eat, Drink and be Merry , 1933 (under the pseudonym David Esdaile).
• Religion in the Reich, 1939 (under the pseudonym Michael Power).
• The Greek Miracle 1942. (described under the pseudonym "Athenian": "translated and with a forward by David Walker").
• Death at my Heels , 1942.
• Civilian Attack 1943.
• We Went to Australia , 1949.
• I go where I am sent , 1952.
• Diamonds for Moscow , 1953 (Filmed as A Man could get killed in 1966)
• Adventure in Diamonds , 1954. (Filmed as Adventure in Diamonds in 1974)
• The Rigoville Match , 1955.
• Lunch with a Stranger , 1957.
• The Fat Cat Pimpernel 1958.
• Pimpernel and the Poodle , 1959.
• The Modern Smuggler 1960.

literature

• The Author's & Writer's Who's Who , 1960, Vol. 4, p. 461.