Agent Zigzag: Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

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 louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret mi5 files to create the exhilarating account of britain's most sensational double agent.