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Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative  One of the “Great Illegals,” a team of outstanding Soviet spies operatingin Western countries between the world wars, Bystrolyotov wasthe response to Sidney Reilly, the British proto


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Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative

Title:Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative
Author:Emil Draitser
Rating:4.81 (113 Votes)
Asin:0810126648
Format Type:Hardcover
Number of Pages:456 Pages
Publish Date:2010-03-19
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Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov(1901–75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet herethe truth is stranger than fiction. The result of a thirty-five-year journeythat started with a private meeting between the author and Bystrolyotovin 1973 Moscow and continued through the author’s subsequentresearch in international archives, Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The RemarkableRise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative pieces together a life livedin the shadows of the twentieth century’s biggest events. One of the “Great Illegals,” a team of outstanding Soviet spies operatingin Western countries between the world wars, Bystrolyotov wasthe response to Sidney Reilly, the British prototype for James Bond.A dashing man, his modus operandi was the seduction of women—among them a French embassy employee, a German countess, the wifeof a British official, and a Gestapo officer—which en

Editorial : There is no doubt that Bystrolyotov was a remarkable spy even by the standards of an era when much of the world was crawling with intelligence agents. 
--The Wall Street Journal

“The life story of the inventor of the modern 'honey trap.' The bastard son of the aristocratic Tolstoy family (or so he claimed) who embarked on a career seducing secretaries, countesses, and diplomat's wives. At one point he married his own wife off to a French intelligence officer in the hopes of obtaining even more information.”
--The New York Review of Books

This book is the author's effort to show a daring professional at work and to counter Russian efforts to whitewash their history. The details of espionage work and of Soviet life are fascinating. --The Library Journal

"A major contribution to intelligence history A critical biography of the spy, a difficult but ultimately successful effort, adding depth to previous accounts Draitser is able

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