18Vologda, Russia
May 1918
Stephen Morrison’s concern was growing. It had been over two months since he had heard from Sidney Reilly. Now that he lived in Moscow, he feared that Reilly would be harder to contact. Lenin and the rest of the Bolshevik leadership resided in the Kremlin. Morrison lived in a small apartment a few blocks away that had been confiscated from a former Tsarist official. It proved adequate for his purposes and convenient to the Kremlin where he remained at Lenin’s beck and call.
His job had evolved into a general bodyguard and security agent for Lenin and other high-ranking officials. In this capacity, he met most of the leaders of the new government, and the more he dealt with them, the more disgusted he became. They seemed to him to be colorless, mindless robots,
