Stalin's Romeo Spy

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword by Gary Kern; Acknowledgments; Notes on Sources, Transliterations, and Translation; Abbreviations and Terms; Prologue Tea with a Master Spy; Part I: The Making of a Spy; One Sowing the Wind; Two A Leaf Torn from a Branch; Three In the Grips of Holy Wrath; Four Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places; Five Marriage and Other Calamities; Part II: Master Spy at Work; Six Going Underground; Seven Hunting Down a Man with a Red Nose; Eight Handling "Charlie"; Nine The End of "Charlie" and Other British Agents.;Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901–75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction. The result of a thirty-five-year journey that started with a private meeting between the author and Bystrolyotov in 1973 Moscow and continued through the author's subsequent research in international archives, Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative pieces together a life lived in the shadows of the twentieth century's biggest events. One of the “Great Illegals," a te.