Author: Owen Matthews
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge — the man John le Carré called “the spy to end spies,” and whose actions turned the tide of WWII.
Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances and infinite possibility. A member of the angry and deluded generation, Sorge became a fanatical communist and the Soviet Union’s most formidable spy.
Never before has Sorge’s story been told from the Russian side as well as the German and Japanese. Owen Matthews takes a sweeping historical perspective and draws on a wealth of declassified Soviet archives — along with testimonies from those who knew and worked with Sorge — to rescue the riveting story of the man described by Ian Fleming as “the most formidable spy in history,” according to a review on goodreads.com.
