The extraordinary story of the collection of opportunists, journalists and spies who operated in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when the West were desperate to stop the spread of Bolshevism and Lenin and Trotsky were equally committed to the opposite. In the popular narrative history of "Agent Zigzag", this tells the tale of such operators as Arthur Ransome, and Americans John Reed and Sidney Reilly in Moscow, and Maxim Litvinov, Adolf Ioffe and Kamenev in Berlin, Paris and London.