"The 'White Lady' spy net stretched across Europe, encompassing more than 1,000 agents and producing 70 percent of Allied intelligence on the German forces in the First World War. It maintained a staggeringly complex network of spies deep behind enemy lines, who provided vital i…
A real-life James Bond, alleged to have spied for at least four nations and executed on the direct orders of Stalin himself, Sidney Reilly left a trail of false identities that made him precisely the type of person the secret intelligence service needed as an agent. Hero, conman…
The autobiography of the so-called 'Ace of Spies', the master of deception Ian Fleming would later use as a model for James Bond. The first part of the book is Reilly's life as told from his personal notes, and more specifically his attempt to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in R…