From 1965 to 1975 he was a columnist for the British weekly, "The Observer". He married Mary B. Wolferth in 1946, and they divorced in 1959. His second wife, the former Katharine J. B. Wood, was a former fashion editor of Edinburgh's "The Scotsman". He had two children with Katharine and two children with Mary. His children with Katharine are Alexander and Victoria. His children with Mary are Maggie and Mike. In 1977, he moved to a farm outside Esmont, Virginia, and turned to writing suspense novels, including "Men in Arms" (1983). He died of cancer in 1991 in Esmont.