This is the true story behind General Alexander Orlov, the man who never was, now revealed in full for the first time: Stalinist henchman, Soviet spy, celebrated defector to the West, and central character in the greatest KGB deception ever.

An FBI agent who knew Alexander Orlov, a high-ranking KGB defector who was feared by Stalin, recounts Orlov's career and offers information on Stalin's regime, KGB operations, and the FBI's intelligence campaigns.

Aleksandr's over-worked, fleaful assistant finally gets to tell his story - as faithfully told by Aleksandr Orlov. Captain Sergei finds himself at the forefront of the latest Meerthrust to the moon. Battling exhaustion, it's touch-and-go whether Sergei will achieve his ambition to play golf on the moon.

Meerkovo's very own leather-clad rocker's story of achieving rock greatness, as faithfully retold by Aleksandr Orlov.

The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language.