As the basis for the popular James Bond stories, Sidney Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy - but was he also a Soviet double-agent? Author John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail--and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925 and was assumed to have been murdered by Stalin's secret police. Apparently not ...
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As the basis for the popular James Bond stories, Sidney Reilly's true exploits were even more thrilling and fantastic than those of the fictional James Bond. Reilly was Britain's best spy - but was he also a Soviet double-agent? Author John Harte retells Reilly's story as it really was, in fast-moving prose with an eye for telling detail--and provides a twist: He tells us what really happened to Reilly after he vanished in Soviet Russia in 1925 and was assumed to have been murdered by Stalin's secret police. Apparently not!
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