Spying doesn’t get any better than this
Murray Sayle, 22 May 1997
Stalin’s Spy: Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Espionage Ring
by Robert Whymant.
Tauris, 368 pp., £25, October 1996,1 86064 044 3 Show More
by Robert Whymant.
Tauris, 368 pp., £25, October 1996,
“... to him. This enthralling new account of Sorge, by the veteran British journalist and old Asia hand Robert Whymant, confirms what I had long suspected: Sorge and Philby were psychic twins, two textbook examples of the rare species we might call Homo undercoverus – those who find the dull, unclassified lives that the rest of us lead simply not (Sorge ... ”
