"'Conradi's book fills in some fascinating detail about this bizarre figure... it gives us a wealth of enjoyable anecdotes about... Anglo-American secret wartime relations' Financial Times Weekend Magazine 'Conradi describes Putzi's involvement with Hitler's entourage with a generous splash of social colour... He also takes a look at some of the methods by which Putzi earned a few bob on the side (his lifestyle and finances were rarely in harmony) and at the world of intrigue and counter-intrigue as background to the bizarre circumstances in which Putzi fled Germany... It hits the mark' Irish Times"

Peter Conradi is the author of The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer, and Mad Vlad: Vladimir Zhirinovsky and the New Russian Nationalism. He is Deputy Foreign Editor for the Sunday Times. He lives in Stockwell, in South London.