Paulo Coelho dedicated his novel to her, composer Giacomo Puccini sent flowers to her home after each of her performances, her image on the silver screen was embodied by such stars as Greta Garbo, Merly Oberon, Françoise Fabian, Jeanne Moreau and Sylvia Kristel. Journalist Sam Waagenaar was the first author to write a truly non-fiction book about the famous dancer and courtesan, accused of espionage and executed by the French in 1917. He managed to gain access to the archives of the French War Ministry, to official Dutch documents, to the interrogations of Mata Hari at Scotland Yard, as well as to her personal diaries, and, in addition, to collect many testimonies of people who personally knew this extraordinary woman who became a victim. intrigues of the secret services and the spy mania that reigned in France.