title: The Dangerous Otto Katz: The Many Lives of a Soviet Spy
author:  Jonathan Miles 
description: Shifting from a fine history of a painting (The Wreck of the Medusa, 2007), Miles depicts a high-profile publicist of the Communist Party line. Involved in books and movies in the 1930s and 1940s, Otto Katz also likely attempted to rub out former Russian spy Whittaker Chambers, but his Stalinist dedication was repaid in tragedy: after a show trial, Katz was executed in 1952 in Prague. Navigating in detail Katzs many clandestine guises, Miles detects the multilingual Czech in Communist and literary circles in 1920s Berlin. Following apparent recruitment by Soviet intelligence, Katz operated from Paris with another Soviet-controlled propagandist known to students of this subject (The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Mnzenberg, 2003, by Sean McMeekin), pumping out anti-Fascist and proPopular Front tracts under a string of aliases. So debonair was Katz he swept through Hollywood posing as a refugee from Nazidom. Touching on famous stage names with which Katzs agitprop career intersected (Nol Coward, Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Hellman), Miles book may appeal to culture mavens as well as those interested in espionage. --Gilbert Taylor
zlib_text: **Lars**
  
   **~~~~~**
  
   **Rubicon International, Book Two**
  
   **by**
  
   **Ann Gimpel**
  
   **Undercover Shifter Bad Boys = Alphas With Serious Attitude**
  
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  Tumble Across the Rubicon Into the Death-Riddled World of International
  Espionage
  
    
  
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  Copyright © February 2016, Ann Gimpel
  
  Cover Art Copyright © February 2016, Fiona Jayde
  
  Edited by: Angela Kelly
  
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  Publishing history: Lars was originally released as Forever and a Day by
  Hartwood Publishing in November 2013. Substant