AGENT ZIG ZAG: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy :: Special Offers :: Other Categories

One of the Second World War’s last secrets is told at last in Ben Macintyre’s brilliant expose of Eddie Chapman : crook, cracksman, lover, double agent, and super spy. An incredible story - except that it is true.

This rightly acclaimed bestseller - now reportedly being filmed by Tom Hanks - tells at last the full story of one of the Second World War’s most successful - and certainly most audacious and outrageous - double agents. Eddie Chapman was a professional criminal. A skilled safeblower, before the war he had the misfortune to be arrested and incarcerated in Jersey, and when the Germans occupied the Channel Islands, they made Eddie an offer he could not refuse : to become a spy in his native land. After intensive training, Chapman was parachuted into Britain in December 1942 - but immediately reported his presence to his old friends in the British police. MI5 saw the value of this plausible rogue, and ‘turned’ him as part of their Double Cross scheme, so that he bamboozled his Abwehr employers who thought he was carrying out valuable sabotage work as a loyal German agent. Chapman spent the rest of the war shuttling between his two employers. The Germans awarded him the Iron Cross - the only award of the top decoration to a Briton in the war - while MI5 ran him as Agent ZigZag, the spy who diverted VI flying bombs from London and got the Germans to believe he had wrecked a major British air base. Charmer and crook; ladies’ man and sentimental lover; patriot and adventurer - Chapman was all these things and more. Journalist and historian Ben Macintyre has at last penetrated one of the war’s last secret and exposed Eddie’s incredible exploits to the blinding light of day.

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Product Code:	10659
Author:	Ben Macintyre
Format:	372pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £14.99
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