Bond, James Bond... His name, invented by Ian Fleming, has become a legend. Elusive and invincible, a favorite of women and fortune, the famous agent 007 has become the standard spy in recent decades. For many years now, researchers have been looking for the “real” James Bond, that is, the person who served as the prototype of the superspy, but there is no definitive answer yet. The author of the book offered to the reader’s attention puts forward his version of the answer to this question. The version, I must say, is very unexpected and original... Who was the prototype of James Bond? Lawrence of Arabia, the most talented English intelligence officer? Or Sidney Reilly, aka Sigmund Rosenblum, son of an Odessa broker and later also an agent of the famous MI6? Heinrich Auer, who served in the Gestapo and then worked for Soviet intelligence? Government intrigues and secrets become the property of those who do not give up the search halfway. The most brilliant operations and the most epic failures of intelligence services around the world are in the new book in the Secret Intelligence Wars series.