Published by Bantam Books March, 1985, Toronto / New York / London, etc., 1985
ISBN 10: 0553248626 ISBN 13: 9780553248623
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paper Back. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed & inscribed by author, Sharon Webb on title page: 'For Mark, Best wishes, Sharon Webb, 2/16/85'. Previous dealer's -- Book Worm of Fayetteville, Ga. -- address stamp on first inside page. Edgeworn with marginal darkening. [204 pages]. Signed By Author.
Published by London etc., Bantam Books, 2002
ISBN 10: 059305038X ISBN 13: 9780593050385
Seller: Klondyke, Almere, Netherlands
Condition: Good.
Published by London etc~. 2010. Bantam Books / Transworld Publishers, 2010
ISBN 10: 0593062299 ISBN 13: 9780593062296
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. black hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xv+366p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. notes. bibliography. index. biography. world war ii. cold war. espionage. covert operations. secret societies. conspiracy theory. slansky trial. ~ He was one of the most effective agents ever to work for Soviet Russia. His fingerprints can be found on one world~changing event after another of the first half of the twentieth century. But who was Otto Katz? To the FBI he was an 'extremely dangerous man'. The British Secret Service wondered if he was the 'Director of all Communist policy in the West'. In Prague and Berlin he was a drinking companion of Franz Kafka and Bertolt Brecht. To Marlene Dietrich he was one of her many lovers. But to others, Katz was a passionate anti~fascist who witnessed Hitler's rise to power and was among the first to alert the world to the Nazi threat. He was a staunch Communist, part of the Soviet infiltration of England during the period when the Cambridge spies were being recruited. In Hollywood, he was a playboy socialite, political mentor to director Fritz Lang and a star among stars. His example inspired the character of Victor Laszlo in Casablanca and Kurt Muller, the hero of the Academy Award~winning Watch on the Rhine. To Noël Coward he was a potential double agent. In the Spanish Civil War he did Stalin's dirty work. Years later some even blamed him for the assassination of Trotsky. In a captivating detective story, Jonathan Miles goes in search of the real Otto Katz~ a brilliant, daring charmer, a double~dealer with an unquestionable taste for the finer things in life who nonetheless served one of history's darkest masters ~ Joseph Stalin. Using recently released FBI, MI5 and Czech files, Jonathan Miles has created an action~packed story of the life (or lives) of one of the world's most intriguing, influential and successful spies.