Author(s): Macintyre, Ben
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 15/08/2024,
Pagination: 400 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781526682642,
Description:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD’Engrossing as any thriller’ Daily Telegraph’Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining’ John le Carr’This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures . . . It would be impossible to recommend it too highly’ Mail on SundayOne December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort.
His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5’s Agent Zigzag. Dashing and suave, courageous and unpredictable, Chapman was by turns a traitor, a hero, a villain and a man of conscience. But, as his spymasters and many lovers often wondered, who was the real Eddie Chapman?Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create an exhilarating account of Britain’s most sensational double agent.
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