Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative

http://www.stalinsromeospy.com First presentation of a newly released book Stalin's Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative by Emil Draitser. Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901-1975) was the Russian equivalent of the British "Ace of Spies", Sydney Reilly. One of the "Great Illegals", a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the world wars, Bystrolyotov was a dashing man whose modus operandi was the seduction of women—among them a French Embassy employee, the wife of a British official, and a disfigured Gestapo officer. He stole military secrets from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, and enabled Stalin to look into the diplomatic pouches of many European countries. Emil Draitser is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction. Originally a freelance journalist in the Soviet Union, where his work appeared in the leading periodicals Izvestiya, Youth, Literary Gazette, and Crocodile under the pen name "Emil Abramov", he was blacklisted for a satirical article. In 1974, he immigrated to the United States, where he has been a professor of Russian at Hunter College in New York City since 1986. In addition to his twelve books, Draitser has published essays and short stories in the Los Angeles Times, Partisan Review, North American Review, Prism International, and many other American and Canadian periodicals. His fiction has also appeared in Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Israeli journals. To learn more visit http://www.stalinsromeospy.com © Shape Films, LLC. http://www.shapefilms.com/