In 1996 Whymant wrote a book about German spy Richard Sorge , '' Stalin ’s Spy : Richard Sorge and the Tokyo Ring '' . He spent 20 years researching Sorge before he wrote the book . Whymant drowned while on holiday in Sri Lanka after being washed away by the tsunami on 26 December 2004
tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Robert Whymant