![]() ![]() Instead, he contacted M15, the British Secret service, and for the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. In 1941, after training as German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. ![]() ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington PostĮddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly compellingly cinematic spy thriller with verve.”- Entertainment Weekly “Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”-William Grimes, The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) ![]()
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