The Soviet plot was breathtaking in scale: its aim was to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West. Russian Roulette tells the story of the first global plot and the British spies who were sent to thwart it. The spies, under Mansfield Cumming, were the unsung founders of the present-day MI6.
1917, post-Russian Revolution, an unlikely and eccentric band of British spies are smuggled into newly Soviet Russia to thwart Lenin's plan to destroy British rule in India, as a precursor to toppling the democracies of the West.
