Sydney Reili. The true story of the King of Spies

The British intelligence officer Sydney Reili, who in the first quarter of the 20th century acted in Russia, in the Far and Middle East, some call the "king of spies", while others - a great adventurer. Who really was one of the prototypes of James Bond? Why did he hide the details of his biography? Did he plan the liquidation of Lenin and Trotsky in 1918? Did he die in a shootout with the Soviet border guards or was secretly shot on the personal order of Stalin? And what real feats did the secret war on the fronts?
Authoritative British historian Andrew Cook based on the secret dossier of English intelligence, inaccessible documents from the archives of 15 countries of the world (including Russia and Ukraine), the memoirs of contemporaries and the results of a twenty -year study answer these and other questions