Proceed At Will

by Burke Wilkinson

Overview

HE COURTED DANGER TO WIN A WOMAN.

WAS HE HERO OR HELL?

Daredevil Geoffrey Mildmay’s war record gave no clue. The man who knew him best wasn’t sure of him. The women he loved were too blinded, or too bitter, to judge him fairly.

“To bloody red hell with the job, I say! Everyone watching me, never a moment to myself. How can a man know what he wants…”

What he really wanted was beautiful, teasing Brenda. They wanted him to sink a battleship. So they used the girl to lure him….

Was the promise of even such a woman enough when the odds were all against his survival?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787209206
Publisher:	Arcole Publishing
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	854 KB

About the Author

John Burke Wilkinson (August 24, 1913 - October 18, 2000) was a former American advertising executive, government official, biographer and novelist.

Born in 1913 in New York City, the son of Henry and Edith (Burke) Wilkinson, he attended St. George’s School and received his Bachelor magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1935. He then travelled to Cambridge University in England in 1936 on a Lionel Harvard studentship.

Wilkinson began his career in advertising, working as a copy writer for Lord & Thomas (advertising) from 1936-1938. He then became assistant advertising manager at Reynal & Hitchcock from 1938-1939 and served as advertising manager at Little, Brown & Company from 1939-1941.

He was Commander of the United States Naval Reserve from 1941-1946 and again from 1951-1952.

Following World War II, he worked as a freelance writer between 1946-1950 and again between 1952-1954. Amongst others, he published Proceed at Will (1948), Run, Mongoose (1950), Black Judas (1950) and Last Clear Chance (1954) during these years.

In 1954 he began a career working as a government official when he was appointed as special assistant to the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, a role he served until 1956. Thereafter he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs from 1956-1958.

Wilkinson moved to Paris, France in 1958, where he became public affairs adviser at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers in Europe, a position he held until 1962.

He was the Director of the United States National Tennis Hall of Fame from 1962-1981.

He died in 2000 aged 87.