This is <b>the most amazing book</b>, full of<b> fascinating and hair-raising</b> true life adventures ... It would be <b>impossible to recommend it too highly</b>

Mail on Sunday

A <b>fascinating </b>biography of this <b>most astonishing </b>and insouciant of double agents ... <b>incredible</b>

Sunday Telegraph

<b>Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining </b>and often very moving

John Le Carré

Se alle

Macintyre<b> never misses a delightful, haunting or terrifying detail</b> ... Buy it for dads everywhere but read it too

Observer

<b>Never short on thrills</b>

Independent on Sunday

A <b>cracker</b> of a Second World War double-agent yarn

The Times

The story of Eddie Chapman is different. <b>In fiction it would be rejected as improbable</b>

- MI5,

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carré'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 Sunday_______One 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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'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving.' JOHN LE CARRÉ
From bestselling author Ben Macintyre, the sensational story of Eddie Chapman, one of Britain's most colourful wartime double agents.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781526682642
Publisert
2024-08-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, U, 01, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter

Biographical note

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He now lives in London with his wife and three children. Agent Zigzag is his fifth book.