9780140068955 - Reilly: Ace of Spies von Lockhart, Robin Bruce (7 Ergebnisse)

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Mass market paperback. Zustand: Good. 220, [4] pages. Footnotes. Presents a critical profile of Sidney Reilly, the legendary spy for the British Secret Service, and his extraordinary and flamboyant career. Robert Norman Bruce Lockhart (13 April 1920 20 February 2008), known as Robin, was a British journalist, stock broker, and author. Bruce Lockhart was the only son of R. H. Bruce Lockhart, a British diplomat, secret agent, journalist, and author. He was educated at Eagle House School and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. During the Second World War he served in British naval intelligence, and was stationed in Singapore, where he met and married his first wife, Peggy in 1942. After the War he pursued a career in journalism, working for the Beaverbrook Press in London, Manchester and Glasgow. He later became a stock broker, while continuing to pursue his literary interests. Lockhart's book, Ace of Spies (1967), recounted the career of the secret agent Sidney Reilly, whose exploits with Lockhart's father in Russia in 1918 made headlines and appeared in the latter's Memoirs of a British Agent (1932). Robin Lockhart's book was adapted by Troy Kennedy Martin into the television miniseries Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983), starring Sam Neill as the title character, with Ian Charleson as his father. Since the miniseries, the book has been republished periodically under the title Reilly: Ace of Spies. Lockhart followed up with Reilly: The First Man (1987), in which he claimed that Reilly was never murdered by the Bolsheviks, but worked with them to plant the Cambridge Five moles. Sidney George Reilly MC (c. 1873 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS). He is alleged to have spied for at least four different great powers, and documentary evidence indicates that he was involved in espionage activities in 1890s London among Russian émigré circles, in Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War (190405), and in an abortive 1918 coup d'état against Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik government in Moscow. Reilly disappeared in Soviet Russia in the mid-1920s, lured by the Cheka's Operation Trust. British diplomat and journalist R. H. Bruce Lockhart publicized his and Reilly's 1918 exploits to overthrow the Bolshevik regime in Lockhart's 1932 book Memoirs of a British Agent. This became an international best-seller and garnered global fame for Reilly. The memoirs retold the efforts by Reilly, Lockhart, and other conspirators to sabotage the Bolshevik revolution while still in its infancy. The world press made Reilly into a household name within five years of his execution by Soviet agents in 1925, lauding him as a peerless spy and recounting his many espionage adventures. Newspapers dubbed him "the greatest spy in history" and "the Scarlet Pimpernel of Red Russia". The London Evening Standard described his exploits in an illustrated serial in May 1931 headlined "Master Spy". Ian Fleming used him as a model for James Bond in his novels set in the early Cold War. Reilly is considered to be "the dominating figure in the mythology of modern British espionage". Sidney Reilly was born in Russia in 1873. To his employers, the British Secret Service, his background was a mystery yet his immense charisma took him into the epicentre of British establishment. Reilly lived for danger, he spoke seven languages and was rumored to possess eleven passports and a wife to go with each. Among his exploits in the early twentieth century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and the near overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was a legendary as his genius for espionage. Presumed First Penguin Books Edition, First printing.