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A 2011 World Book Night selection.
Shortlisted for the Biography of the Year Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008.
Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2007.
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.
Costa Book Awards 2007 Judges' comment: "Ben Macintyre uses his exceptional writing skill to make this extraordinary biography, of double - maybe triple - agent Eddie Chapman, read like a thriller."
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Agent Zigzag Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD
'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph
'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carré
'This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures . . . It would be impossible to recommend it too highly' Mail on Sunday
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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 suave, courageous and unpredictable, Chapman was by turns a traitor, a hero, a villain and a man of conscience. But, as his spymasters and many lovers often wondered, who was the real Eddie Chapman?
Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create an exhilarating account of Britain's most sensational double agent.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781526682642 |
| Publication date: |
15th August 2024 |
| Author: |
Ben Macintyre |
| Publisher: |
Bloomsbury an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
400 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Biographies & Autobiographies
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About Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of eight previous books including Agent Zigzag, shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008, and the no. 1 bestseller Operation Mincemeat. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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