The Nine Lives Of Otto Katz

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bantam Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 366 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The Remarkable True Story Of A Communist Super-spy

Publishers Description: Spies should be glamorous - James Bond in a Savile Row suit rather than Harry Palmer in a grubby mac . . . In those terms, Otto Katz was perfect. He was a Hollywood playboy who hobnobbed with Fritz Lang, he inspired the character of Victor Laszlo in Casablanca, he was a drinking buddy of Bertolt Brecht and among his lovers he claimed Marlene Dietrich. He was even known to Nel Coward The TimesIf you were to imagine the perfect spy, you may well be picturing Otto Katz. He was charming, suave, and utterly ruthless. In the golden years of the spy game, from Hitlers rise to power, through the Second World War, and on into the Cold War, Otto Katz was at the centre of Russias web of international intrigue. His fingerprints can be found on one world changing event after another.Using recently released FBI, MI5 and Czech files, Jonathan Miles has created an action-packed story of the life (or lives) of one of the worlds most successful spies . At the same time he paints a vivid portrait of the shadow world that exists behind the headlines where the actions of a man like Katz can, and do, change the course of history.

ISBN: 9780593062302