An incredible true story of passion, espionage and double crossing that encircled the globe, A Very Dangerous Woman brings her extraordinary world vividly to life with dramatic resonances to rival the most sensational novel. Grippingly narrated, this is the first biography of Moura Budberg to use the full range of previously unexamined letters, diaries and documents. Through all this she clung to the hope that Lockhart would finally return to her. Wells, Moura later spied for Stalin and for Britain amidst the web of scandal surrounding the Cambridge spies. Fleeing to a life of exile in England and taking a string of new lovers, including Maxim Gorky and H. But when Lockhart’s plot unravelled, she would forsake everything in an attempt to protect him from Lenin’s secret police. Lockhart soon got to know Moura and they began a passionate affair, even though Moura was spying on him for the Bolsheviks. When Lockhart arrived in Revolutionary Russia in 1918, his official mission was Britain’s envoy to the new Bolshevik government, yet his real assignment was to create a network of agents and plot the downfall of Lenin. Emma Goldman's life is a writer's dreamlong and sordid, inspiring and debased, full of sex, political courage, and international intrigue. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she sacrificed everything for love, only to be betrayed. By JOSH LAMBERT A DANGEROUS WOMAN The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman By Sharon Rudahl 112 pages. Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century’s greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness.
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