Main Klop: Britain's most ingenious secret agent
Klop: Britain's most ingenious secret agent cover

Klop: Britain's most ingenious secret agent

, ,
4.0 / 5.0
0 comments

Klop Ustinov was Britain's most ingenious secret agent, but he wasn't authorised to kill. Instead, he was authorised to tell tall tales, bemusing and beguiling his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and tricked his way into the confidence of everyone from Soviet commissars to Gestapo Gruppenführer. In Klop: Britain's Most Ingenious Secret Agent, journalist Peter Day brings to life a man descended from Russian aristocrats and Ethiopian princesses but who fancied himself the perfect Englishman. His codename was U35 but his better-known nickname 'Klop' meant 'bedbug', a name given to him by a very understanding wife on account of his extraordinary capacity to hop from one woman's bed to another in the service of the King. Frequenting the social gatherings of Europe in the guise of innocent bon viveur, he displayed a showman's talent for entertaining (a trait his son, the actor Peter Ustinov,...

Request Code : ZLIBIO2670506
Categories:
Year:
2014
Publisher:
Biteback Publishing
Language:
English
Pages:
(258 pages) : illustrations, portraits
ISBN 10:
1849547645
ISBN 13:
9781849547642
ISBN:
9781849547642,1849547645

Comments of this book

There are no comments yet.