About the book: 2021 / British foreign intelligence officer Paul Dukes, known as “the man of a hundred faces,” talks about his espionage activities in this memoir in revolutionary Russia. Acting under various covers, the most daring of which was the identity of a Cheka employee, Dukes successfully gained access to many Soviet institutions, studied the internal workings of the Politburo, transmitting information about it to London. Returning to Britain, he was awarded a knighthood for his secret service..