Title: Agent Garbo
Subtitle: The Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day
Description: Before he remade himself as the master spy known as Garbo, Juan Pujol was nothing more than a Barcelona poultry farmer. But as Garbo, he turned in a masterpiece of deception that changed the course of World War II. Posing as the Nazis’ only reliable spy inside England, he created an imaginary million-man army, invented armadas out of thin air, and brought a vast network of fictional subagents to life. The scheme culminated on June 6, 1944, when Garbo convinced the Germans that the Allied forces approaching Normandy were just a feint—the real invasion would come at Calais. Because of his brilliant trickery, the Allies were able to land with much less opposition and eventually push on to Berlin.

As incredible as it sounds, everything in Agent Garbo is true, based on years of archival research and interviews with Pujol’s family. This pulse-pounding thriller set in the shadow world of espionage and deception reveals the shocking reality of spycraft that occurs just below the surface of history.
Subjects: Secret service, World War, 1939-1945, Biography, Spies, World war, 1939-1945, secret service, great britain, Great britain, biography, nyt:espionage=2014-12-07, New York Times bestseller
Places: Great Britain
People: Juan Pujol
Time periods: World War II, 1939-1945