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 team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the world wars, Bystrolyotov was the response to Sidney Reilly, the British prototype for James Bond. A dashing man, his modus operandi was the seduction of women - among them a French embassy employee, a German countess, the wife of a British official, and a Gestapo officer - which enabled Stalin to look into diplomatic...

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