Spies
Subtitle: The Secret Agents Who Changed the Course of History
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: January 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780471557142
First sentence: With his ingratiating politeness, Viennese charm, and oily manner, the short, stocky man with wavy hair was that prototypical European type known in German as a schieber (roughly, con artist).