A gripping and colourful portrait of a celebrated, glamorous, and daring double-agent - possibly the inspiration for James Bond - who epitomised everything we associate with the life of the spy.
Russell Miller is a prize-winning journalist and the author of fifteen books. His book on the Magnum photo agency was described by John Simpson as 'the best book on photo-journalism I have ever read', and his oral histories of D-Day, Nothing Less Than Victory, and the SOE, Behind The Lines, were widely acclaimed, both in Britain and in the United States. He is also the author of Bare-faced Messiah- The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard.
For anybody interested in the spider's web of war-time deception,
in which Popov lighted like an iridescent butterfly, this Tricycle
is worth a ride
*Daily Mail*
As intriguing and nerve-wracking as [the] subject's career
*Sunday Times*
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