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However, “The life of Reilly” – where does this little saying come from ? …. Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Russian born adventurer and secret agent employed by the British Secret Intelligence Service. He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations. His notoriety during the 1920s was owed in part to his friend, British diplomat and journalist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, who sensationalised their operations together. After Reilly's reported death, the London Evening Standard published in May, 1931, a Master Spy serial glorifying his exploits. 

Ian Fleming would use Reilly as a model for James Bond. In Ian Fleming, The Man Behind James Bond by Andrew Lycett, Sidney Reilly is listed as an inspiration for James Bond.  Reilly's friend, Sir Bruce Lockhart was a close acquaintance of Sir Ian Fleming for many years and recounted to Fleming many of Reilly's espionage adventures. Lockhart having worked with Reilly in Russia, in 1918, where they became embroiled in an SIS-backed plot to overthrow Lenin's Bolshevik government. Within five years of his disappearance in Soviet Russia in 1925, the press had turned Reilly into a household name, lauding him as a "master spy" and recounting his many espionage adventures. Fleming had therefore long been aware of Reilly's mythical reputation and had listened to the recollections of Lockhart who had not only known Reilly personally but was actually with Reilly during the turmoil and aftermath of the Russian Revolution. Like Fleming's fictional creation, Reilly was multi-lingual with a fascination with the Far East, fond of fine living and a compulsive gambler. He also exercised a Bond-like mastery of women, his many love affairs standing comparison with the amorous adventures of 007.