Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books, one of which, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict, (2010), won a National Jewish Book Award. His books and articles have been translated into German, French, Turkish and Chinese. Now an emeritus professor, he divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

It would make a cracking Hollywood thriller ... The Lockhart Plot is terrifically entertaining. Schneer does an excellent job of evoking the paranoid atmosphere of Russia in 1918, and his book teems with colourful characters.

• Introduction I: Lockhart before the Fall 1: The Making of Bruce Lockhart 2: The Education of Bruce Lockhart 3: The Temptations of Bruce Lockhart II: Defenders of the Faith 4: Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky 5: Tender Jacov Peters 6: The Cheka III: Towards the Fall 7: The 'Ace of Spies' 8: First Steps Towards the Counter-Revolution 9: The Question of Moura 10: Why Lockhart turned to the Latvians 10 11: Dzerzhinsky Counters 12: Intrigue and Romance in Revolutionary Russia 13: The Lockhart Plot Takes Shape IV: The Fall 14: The Lockhart Plot 15: The Defeat of the Lockhart Plot 16: Dénouement 17: Epilogue 18: Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books, one of which, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict, (2010), won a National Jewish Book Award. His books and articles have been translated into German, French, Turkish and Chinese. Now an emeritus professor, he divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

It would make a cracking Hollywood thriller ... The Lockhart Plot is terrifically entertaining. Schneer does an excellent job of evoking the paranoid atmosphere of Russia in 1918, and his book teems with colourful characters.

• Introduction I: Lockhart before the Fall 1: The Making of Bruce Lockhart 2: The Education of Bruce Lockhart 3: The Temptations of Bruce Lockhart II: Defenders of the Faith 4: Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky 5: Tender Jacov Peters 6: The Cheka III: Towards the Fall 7: The 'Ace of Spies' 8: First Steps Towards the Counter-Revolution 9: The Question of Moura 10: Why Lockhart turned to the Latvians 10 11: Dzerzhinsky Counters 12: Intrigue and Romance in Revolutionary Russia 13: The Lockhart Plot Takes Shape IV: The Fall 14: The Lockhart Plot 15: The Defeat of the Lockhart Plot 16: Dénouement 17: Epilogue 18: Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

Jonathan Schneer was born in New York City. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and has taught at Yale University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The recipient of numerous academic fellowships and awards, he has written seven previous books, one of which, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of Arab-Israeli Conflict, (2010), won a National Jewish Book Award. His books and articles have been translated into German, French, Turkish and Chinese. Now an emeritus professor, he divides his time between Atlanta, Georgia and Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA.

It would make a cracking Hollywood thriller ... The Lockhart Plot is terrifically entertaining. Schneer does an excellent job of evoking the paranoid atmosphere of Russia in 1918, and his book teems with colourful characters.

• Introduction I: Lockhart before the Fall 1: The Making of Bruce Lockhart 2: The Education of Bruce Lockhart 3: The Temptations of Bruce Lockhart II: Defenders of the Faith 4: Iron Felix Dzerzhinsky 5: Tender Jacov Peters 6: The Cheka III: Towards the Fall 7: The 'Ace of Spies' 8: First Steps Towards the Counter-Revolution 9: The Question of Moura 10: Why Lockhart turned to the Latvians 10 11: Dzerzhinsky Counters 12: Intrigue and Romance in Revolutionary Russia 13: The Lockhart Plot Takes Shape IV: The Fall 14: The Lockhart Plot 15: The Defeat of the Lockhart Plot 16: Dénouement 17: Epilogue 18: Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index