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.
BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, Agent Zigzag, The Napoleon of Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of the wartime espionage trilogy.