The name of Richard Sorge is now well known in Russia and abroad. However, there were two decades of complete oblivion, and years of scrupulous research by historians, lawyers, intelligence officers, journalists, and writers. And each of them, including the authors of this book, contributed little by little to the creation of the image of Sorge. It is now quite obvious that Richard Sorge is not only a hero of the Great Patriotic War, the greatest intelligence officer of the era of World War II, but also a prominent journalist, analyst, and geopolitician. The book by Sergei Polyakov and Mikhail Ilyinsky tells about this amazing man of the bygone millennium.