Biography/Autobiography

Category Biography/Autobiography
Author Mary-Kay Wilmers
Publisher Faber and Faber Ltd.
Copyright 2009

Description

Wilmer's focuses on three extraordinary members of the Eitingon family with all the intrigue of their exploits as part of an influential Russian Jewish family, Leonid, a KGB assassin, Max, wealthy psychoanalyst, and Motty, world fur trader, the last two of whom were imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and questioned by the FBI for their clandestine activities. It is not only a history of the family but a commentary of the times in the last century.

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