The Secret Lives Of Trebitsch Lincoln by Bernard Wasserstein

A European Story of the Twentieth Century

A gripping biography of a restless, chameleon-like adventurer whose restless ambition and moral opportunism led him to reinvent himself repeatedly—converting religions, adopting new names and roles, traveling between Europe and Asia, and engaging in espionage, diplomacy and political intrigue—while the author uses his extraordinary career as a prism for the turbulent ideological and imperial conflicts of the early twentieth century, probing questions of identity, loyalty and the forces that reward audacity and deceit.