The Secret Police of Russia

In 1918, Paul Nazaroff was the ringleader of a desperate plot to overthrow the Bolsheviks in Central Asia. He was betrayed by the Secret Police , who labeled him "the most dangerous counter-revolutionary at large in the Tashkent region." As he fled from Lenin's men , he was aided by the indigenous peoples of the region, the Kirghiz and the Sarts, and for months he was forced to live the life of a hunted animal. Marc Booth has written an intriguing introduction to this thrilling story of espionag