Stalin's Romeo Spy

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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. 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. Ten In the Arms of the Fiercest EnemyEleven The "Vivaldi" Affair Twelve The Last Operations: Africa and Other Gray Areas Thirteen The Return Part III: Afterlife Fourteen In Ink and Blood Fifteen Sentencing and Entering the Gulag Sixteen The Invalid Camp Seventeen Love Behind Barbed Wire Eighteen The High Price of Decency Nineteen Taking On Challenges of Freedom Twenty Fighting to the End, Now a Different Enemy Afterword Notes Selected Bibliography Index Gallery follows page.