Spy / Counterspy: The Autobiography of Dusko Popov

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 Even those of us who are addicted to the fantastic excitements of the fictional spy story—whether it be about James Bond or a William le Queux hero of prewar days—turned with relief and interest to the more realistic story of the strains and risks of actual spying, such as Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden.

In this book Dusko Popov gives us the best of both types. In addition, his story is true, and the more fascinating because of that. Reading him one can get all the thrill of real danger—not of James Bond’s alligators and maneating fish—but of something even more ruthless, evil, and dangerous: the German Secret Service.

I knew Dusko Popov well during the war, when he risked and achieved so much for the Allied cause. He could, in some respects, have been an Ian Fleming hero—one of the bravest and gayest of men, possessing immense charm and personal magnetism. He enjoyed a carefree and luxurious life. As he was wont to say: “Why not, if the Germans are paying for it? And that life is me. If I didn’t live it I would be ‘blown’; the Germans would realize at once that there was something strange.” '

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