Agent Zigzag
Subtitle: a true story of Nazi espionage, love, and betrayal
By: Ben MacIntyre.
Edition: 1st American pbk. ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780307353412
Subjects: Chapman, Edward Arnold; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Germany; World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain; Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography; Spies -- Germany -- Biography; Espionage -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Espionage -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with orders to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, he worked as a double agent, a British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and miraculously keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman's files, allowing the full story to be told, a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.--From publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.