Adventures of a British Master Spy: The Memoirs of Sydney Reilly (Dialogue Espionage Classics)

In September 1925 Sidney Reilly journeyed across the Russian frontier on a mission to overthrow the Bolsheviks and restore the Czar. He vanished without a trace. The circumstances surrounding his death remain a mystery. This classic autobiography reveals the intriguing adventures and exploits of the man widely credited as being the original twentieth-century super-spy inspiration for Ian Flemings James Bond. Sidney Reilly the so-called Ace of Spies was a womanizing British secret agent who claimed to be Irish but was in fact Russian. Awarded the Military Cross for his daring operations he met his death in Russia in 1925 after a sting operation by the Soviet Secret Service.