PublishedTransworld, March 2011 |
ISBN9780553820188 |
FormatSoftcover, 496 pages |
Dimensions19.8cm × 12.7cm × 3cm |
The story of the communist super-spy Otto Katz reads like the history of the first half of the twentieth century. His story takes us from Bohemian Prague to Weimar Berlin, from the Reichstag Fire to the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, from Paris to London, to Hollywood, Washington and New York.
We see behind the curtain of Communist espionage in America and Britain - with the man who was the inspiration for the character of Victor Lazlo in Casablanca and who the FBI described as 'an extremely dangerous man', The cast of characters includes- Franz Kafka, Marlene Dietrich, the Cambridge Spies- Burges, Philby, Blunt and MacLean; Hitler, Stalin, Noel Coward, Dashiell Hammett, and Trotsky.
