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A Master Spy for All Time—and Ours

A new biography sheds more light on legendary British agent Sidney Reilly

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Peter Eisner
Nov 22, 2022
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It is altogether fitting that a new biography about Sidney Reilly, one of the most elusive master spies in modern history, should be a slim volume less than 200 pages long. Reilly, a British agent in Russia in the early days of the Bolshevik revolution, was so elusive that, along with his significant failures and a few successes, he probably will…

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