Ben Macintyre 
Agent Zigzag 
The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

From the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat, now a major film


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


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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.