On His Majesty's Secret Service, Sydney Reilly Codename St1
Language: English
Published by Tempus Pub Ltd, 2002
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Rivendell Books Ltd., Barrie, ON, CanadaRivendell Books Ltd.
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On His Majesty's Secret Service, Sydney Reilly Codename St1.
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- Title
- On His Majesty's Secret Service, Sydney Reilly Codename St1
- Author
- Cook, Andrew
- Publisher
- Tempus Pub Ltd
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0752425552
- ISBN 13
- 9780752425559
- Seller catalogs
- Antiquarian Collection
After four years working for MI6 and being exposed by the Soviets for his role in the plot to overthrow Lenin, he mysteriously disappeared in Russia in 1925. By the 1930s the press had turned Reilly into a household name, dubbing him 'Master Spy'- the myth was cast. It was upon this myth and the first hand access to British intelligence records on Reilly that Ian Fleming (himself a secret service desk officer during the Second World War) was inspired to create James Bond.
Until now major questions have remained unanswered about Reilly. During his life Reilly laid an almost impenetrable fog of mystery and deception around his origins as he adopted and shed one identity after another. Those who entered this ruthlessly compartmentalised life knew only what Reilly himself had told them. Andrew Cook's startling biography- itself a detective story of epic proportions- cuts through the myths revealing for the first time Reilly's true identity, his precarious 'disappearance' in 1925, using new, independent and expert photographic analysis of the photographs of Reilly's corpse to ascertain their authenticity, and finally providing concrete proof that he was executed by the Russians in 1925. His most sensational discovery of all, however, is the identity of a close former colleague in MI6 circles whose collaboration with the Russians aided his entrapment.
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