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Agent Zigzag

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‘If you’re looking for a good spy thriller, I definitely recommend this’ Daily Express
The thrilling real-life story of a double agent in the Second World War

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From the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat, now a major filmSHORTLISTED 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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Additional information

Weight 0.32 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.6 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

viii, 372 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

940.548641092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K