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The Greatest Spy - The True Story of the Secret Agent that Inspired James Bond 007 (Hardcover)
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The Greatest Spy - The True Story of the Secret Agent that Inspired James Bond 007 (Hardcover)
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Audacious, brilliant, chameleon. All these words could be used to
describe the man that became Britain's greatest spy, a man known by
several names and who came from many places, depending on who was
asking and when. Was he from Poland? Or was he the son of an Irish
clergyman? Many believe he was born in Odessa, Ukraine, a place hot
in today's headlines. He certainly had the ability to be convincing
to anyone he met, including the head of Britain's intelligence
services. Sidney Reilly, one of many names he was known by, was the
most successful spy in history. His adventures first came to light
during the Russian Revolution in 1917 when he was tasked by
Britain's Secret Service with overthrowing the Bolsheviks after
they had formed a new government. He had already succeeded in
stealing the plans of the Kaiser's new and modern fleet of
battleships from Krupp, to help Britain and her allies win World
War I, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1919. In 1953,
novelist Ian Fleming used Reilly's secret Admiralty Intelligence
file to write his novels about a fictional secret agent he called
James Bond 007. But 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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