Otto

This extraordinary novel is based on a true story of a revolutionary who was an advisor to Castro, friend of President Salvador Allende, and married to a woman who became one of the leaders of the Kurdish rebellion in Iran. There is a poignancy in his life, forever underlined by the leading roles thrown on him - like hoopla rings at a fair.

Code-named Otto, he became an enemy of both the KGB and the CIA - and all by chance, by a twist of fate, or by someone else's design.

From the mountains of Venezuela to the streets of Paris, from the heart of Cuba to rain-drenched London, this is a fabulous and picaresque journey, the story of the lives (at least nine) and loves (plenty of those) of an astonishing man.