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competing for the attention of fair ladies - with pennons and streamers fluttering from castle battlements

an overheard quarrel that led to murder

Nothing less than 'The One' will do

their writing is vivid and lively

Praetorian soldiers served not only as protectors and enforcers but also as powerful political players

Mary-Kay Wilmers: ETINGONS Z44 [2017] paperback ZHBFI competing for the attention ofLeonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was assassinated. 'As long as I live,' Stalin had said, 'not a hair of his head shall be touched.' It did not work out like that. Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst: a colleague, friend and protege of Freud's. He was rich, secretive and through his friendship with a famous