This is the true story of Sidney Reilly, one of the most fascinating spies of the twentieth century, yet one of the most enigmatic. A master spy, a brilliant con man, a charmer, and a lovable rogue who lived on his wits and thrived on danger, killing where necessary and unnecessary. He spoke seven languages and was rumoured to possess eleven passports and a wife to go with each. A towering figure in the history of British espionage and one of Fleming's models for James Bond, Sidney Reilly was born in Russia in 1873. To his employers, the British Secret Service, his background was a mystery, yet his immense charisma took him into the epicentre of the British establishment. In 1917 he infiltrated the German General Staff and a year later was involved in the near overthrow of the Bolsheviks. The details of his death in the mid 1920s remain opaque, with sightings being claimed well into World War Two.