"...Revolutionary, spy, missionary, and confidence trickster, Trebitsch Lincoln was one of the most astounding and bizarre figures in modern history. A juvenile criminal in his native Hungary, he emigrated to Canada in 1900 as a missionary in Montreal and then became, successively, Anglican curate in Kent, Liberal Member of the British Parliament, German agent in both world wars, outlaw in the USA, member of the 1920 right-wing German military government, conspirator in the ‘White International’, adviser to warlords in China, and Buddhist abbot in Shanghai. .."