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The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond
Berkley
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
Featuring: Dusko Popov
384 pages
ISBN: 0425281817
EAN: 9780425281819
Kindle: B016JPTHWG
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Non-Fiction Biography
James Bond has nothing on Dusko Popov. a double agent for
the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI during World War II,
Popov seduced numerous women, spoke five languages, and was
a crack shot, all while maintaining his cover as a
Yugoslavian diplomat… On a cool August evening in 1941, a Serbian playboy created
a stir at Casino Estoril in Portugal by throwing down an
outrageously large baccarat bet to humiliate his opponent.
The Serbian was a British double agent, and the
money―which
he had just stolen from the Germans―belonged to the
British.
From the sideline, watching with intent interest was none
other than Ian Fleming… The Serbian was Dusko Popov. As a youngster, he was expelled
from his London prep school. Years later he would be
arrested and banished from Germany for making derogatory
statements about the Third Reich. When World War II ensued,
the playboy became a spy, eventually serving three dangerous
masters: the Abwehr, MI5 and MI6, and the FBI. On August 10, 1941, the Germans sent Popov to the United
States to construct a spy network and gather information on
Pearl Harbor. The FBI ignored his German questionnaire, but
J. Edgar Hoover succeeded in blowing his cover. While MI5
desperately needed Popov to deceive the Abwehr about the
D-Day invasion, they assured him that a return to the German
Secret Service Headquarters in Lisbon would result in
torture and execution. He went anyway... Into the Lion’s Mouth is a globe-trotting account of
a man’s entanglement with espionage, murder, assassins, and
lovers―including enemy spies and a Hollywood starlet.
It is
a story of subterfuge and seduction, patriotism, and
cold-blooded courage. It is the story of Dusko Popov―the
inspiration for James Bond. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
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