Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
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Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a conman and a philanderer; he was also one of the most remarkable secret agents Britain has ever produced. Recruited in occupied Jersey by the German Secret Service at the start of the Second World War, Chapman became a highly prized Nazi agent. But throughout the war he secretly spied for Britain, as Agent Zigzag. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero; the problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers, was to know where one ended, and the other began.In 1941, after training at a secret German spy school in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill. His mission was to blow up the factory producing Britain's Mosquito light bomber. Instead, he contacted MI5. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service.Chapman supplied MI5 with crucial military information from... The Washington Post - Patrick Anderson Agent Zigzag is the amazing but true story of Eddie Chapman, a professional criminal who became a highly effective double agent during World War II, winning the trust of German intelligence services even as he reported back to the spymasters of MI5…Chapman's story has been told in fragments in the past, but only when MI5 declassified his files was it possible to present it in all its richness and complexity. Macintyre tells it to perfection, with endless insights into the horror and absurdity of war…Chapman is an endlessly fascinating figure, a man who would save your life one day and steal your watch the next. It's amusing, at this point, to see how the more aristocratic Brits couldn't quite believe that this degenerate, this criminal, could be a patriot. But Eddie Chapman was a patriot, in his fashion, and this excellent book finally does him justice.
Prologue 1The Hotel de la Plage 3Jersey Gaol 11Island at War 21Romainville 29Villa de la Bretonniere 39Dr. Graumann 48Codebreakers 61The Mosquito 72Under Unseen Eyes 81The Drop 89Martha's Exciting Night 99Camp 020 10635 Crespigny Road 117What a Way Out 130Freda and Diane 139Abracadabra 152The Greater the Adventure 164Stowaway Spy 178Joli Albert 185Damp Squib 198The Ice Front 209The Girl at the Ritz 220Sabotage Consultant 233Lunch at the Lutetia 242The Prodigal Crook 253Doodlebugs 262Going to the Dogs 271Case Dismissed 280Aftermath 290Epilogue 301Appendix 307Acknowledgments 309Notes 311Selected Bibliography 349Index 353
