Russian Roulette - A Deadly Game: How British Spies Thwarted Lenins Global Plot Milton GilesPaperback

'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history.' - The Times In 1917, an eccentric band of British spies is smuggled into newly-Soviet Russia. To defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West. Their goal?

They found a wholly new way to deal with enemies, one that relied on espionage and dirty tricks rather than warfare. These extraordinary spies, led by Mansfield Cumming, proved brilliantly successful. They were the unsung founders of today's modern, highly professional secret services.

They were also the inspiration for fictional heroes to follow, from James Bond to Jason Bourne.