About the book: 1996 / In the book of English authors, based on numerous documents and statements of participants in the events, the figure himself is considered in a completely new way for the Russian reader Richard Sorge, and the work of the group he led in China and Japan on the eve of World War II. The book will be of interest not only to specialist historians, but also to a wide readership, primarily because of the originality of Sorge’s personality and the existence of the most controversial legends about him, and also because the authors were able to “close” many of the blind spots in the Sorge case.