Sidney George Reilly, renowned as ‘Ace of Spies’ and termed by historians as the first ‘super spy’ of the 20th century served the British ‘Secret Service Bureau’ as a secret agent. Sidney Reilly was accused of spying for several powers - at least four. This extraordinary spy, whose whole life starting from childhood remained kind of a mystery, faked his own death in Odessa and escaped the Tsarist regime and reached London either via Brazil or France. There is a possibility that many of the romantic stories regarding him were his own creations and much information perceived to be about him may not be true as he was an expert in deception. He acquired naval secrets of Germany and Persian oil concessions for Britain. His popularity was to some extent created by Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, his friend, journalist and a British diplomat, who made public their impeding action to crush the Bolshevik regime. His adventures were published in a serial by the ‘London Evening Standard’ as "Master Spy". He remained an inspiration for Ian Fleming’s James Bond.