Richard Sorge was a bad man who became a great spy – indeed one of the greatest spies who ever lived. The espionage network that he built in prewar Tokyo put him at just one degree of separation from the highest echelons of power in Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. Sorge’s best friend, employer and unwitting informant Eugen Ott, German ambassador to Japan, spoke regularly to Hitler. Sorge’s top Japanese agent Hotsumi Ozaki was a member of the cabinet’s inner advisory council and regularly talked to Prime Minister Prince Konoe. And in Moscow, Sorge’s immediate bosses were constant visitors to Stalin’s Kremlin study. Sorge survived as an undetected Soviet spymaster for nearly nine years in Tokyo, even as Japan was swept by hysterical spy mania and the police constantly hunted for the source of his regular, coded radio transmissions. And yet he managed to steal the most closely kept military and political secrets of both Germany and Japan while hiding in plain sight. 理查德·索尔格是个坏人，他成了一名伟大的间谍——事实上，他是有史以来最伟大的间谍之一。他把日本和苏联的间谍网络划分为战前最高级别。索尔格最好的朋友、雇主和不知情的线人、德国驻日本大使尤金·奥特定期与希特勒交谈。Sorge的日本高级特工小崎昌美（Hotsumi Ozaki）是内阁内部顾问委员会的成员，定期与日本首相河野亲王（Prince Konoe）交谈。而在莫斯科，索尔格的直接上司经常造访斯大林在克里姆林宫的研究。索尔格在东京作为一名未被发现的苏联间谍大师存活了近九年，尽管日本被歇斯底里的间谍狂热所席卷，警察不断搜寻他的常规、编码无线电传输的来源。然而，他设法在明目张胆的情况下窃取了德国和日本最严密的军事和政治机密。