'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving' - John le Carre
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 louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was.
Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408885406
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 320 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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
A fascinating biography of this most astonishing and insouciant of double agents ... incredible - Sunday Telegraph
Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving - John le Carré
Macintyre never misses a delightful, haunting or terrifying detail ... Buy it for dads everywhere but read it too - Observer
Never short on thrills - Independent on Sunday
A cracker of a Second World War double-agent yarn - The Times
The story of Eddie Chapman is different. In fiction it would be rejected as improbable - MI5
Chapman makes you think inescapably of a certain 007 - Sunday Times
As engrossing as any thriller - Daily Telegraph
If you're looking for a good spy thriller, I definitely recommend this - Daily Express
This mesmerising story of larger-than-life double agent Eddie Chapman exceeded my expectations. Agent Zigzag’s wartime exploits and his friendships and rivalries are enthralling (MacIntyre recreates entire... More
Somewhere in our national psyche there is a Bond myth. Well this book should thoroughly debunk it. This double agent some claim was Fleming's inspiration was nothing like Bond. He was a criminal, a chancer, a... More
An enthralling story ,excitement on every page . ,very well written . Couldn't put the book down, read it in two days
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