Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond

by Larry Loftis

Menzies’s housemaster, Edward Impey, also insisted that his boys master the Gospels, contending that only in them could a young man acquire courage, truth, honor, courtesy, chivalry, and manliness.

With only slight exaggeration, Dusko suggested that he might use the same “nazi-gangster methods” and kidnap a Partisan general to assure his mother’s safety.

Popov “put his head into the lion’s mouth” by returning to Lisbon and Madrid time and again when his cover was surely blown.