Klop. Britain's Most Ingenious Spy

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: MJF Books
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 340 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Klop Ustinov was Britains most ingenious secret agent, but he wasnt authorised to kill. Instead, he was authorised to tell tall tales, bemusing and beguiling his enemies into revealing their deepest, darkest secrets. From the Russian Revolution to the Cold War, he bluffed and tricked his way into the confidence of everyone from Soviet commissars to Gestapo Gruppenfuhrer. In Klop: Britains Most Ingenious Secret Agent, journalist Peter Day brings to life a man descended from Russian aristocrats and Ethiopian princesses but who fancied himself the perfect Englishman. His codename was U35 but his better-known nickname Klop meant bedbug, a name given to him by a very understanding wife on account of his extraordinary capacity to hop from one womans bed to another in the service of the King. Frequenting the social gatherings of Europe in the guise of innocent bon viveur, he displayed a showmans talent for entertaining (a trait his son, the actor Peter Ustinov, undoubtedly inherited), holding a captive audience and all the while scavenging secrets from his unsuspecting companions. Klop was masterful at gathering truth by telling a story; this is his.

ISBN: 9781606712955