The Spy who was left out in the Cold

The larger than life story of one of the West’s most productive Cold War counter-intelligence agents - a man who to the CIA’s embarrassment turned out also to be a bigamist and a romancer who claimed publicly to be the last descendent of the Russian Czar and heir to his fortune. A made for Hollywood page turner, it’s a fascinating read and highly recommended. – SIR DAVID OMAND, author of How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in IntelligenceTotally gripping … a masterpiece. Tate lifts the lid on one of the most important and complex spies of the Cold War, who passed secrets to the West and finally unmasked traitor George Blake. – HELEN FRY, author of MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War TwoA brilliant and gripping exploration of one of the last great espionage enigmas of the twentieth century. Unputdownable. – TREVOR BARNES, author of Dead DoublesA wonderful and at times mind-boggling account of a bizarre and almost forgotten spy - right up to the time when he’s living undercover in Queens, New York and claiming to be the last of the Romanoffs. – SIMON KUPER, author of The Happy TraitorA highly readable and thoroughly researched account of one of the Cold War’s most intriguing and tragic spy stories. – OWEN MATTHEWS, author of An Impeccable Spy

Born in Calcutta, Tim Tate is a multi-award winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and best-selling author. Over a career spanning almost forty years he has written for most national newspapers and made more than eighty documentaries for British and international broadcasters. He is the author of sixteen published non-fiction books, including the acclaimed Hitler’s Forgotten Children and Hitler’s British Traitors - hailed ‘a brilliant book’ by Dan Snow. Tim Tate lives in Wiltshire.