• Agent Zigzag

  • The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy
  • By: Ben Macintyre
  • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
  • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Agent Zigzag

By: Ben Macintyre
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
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Publisher's summary

Bloomsbury presents Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre, read by Peter Wickham.

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.

©2007 Ben Macintyre (P)2007 Soundings Audiobooks

Critic reviews

"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)

"Macintyre never misses a delightful, haunting or terrifying detail.... Buy it for dads everywhere but read it, too." (Observer)

"Never short on thrills." (Independent on Sunday)

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The recording quality was not great. I found it quite distracting at times. There is another audio book with the same title. You might consider the other option instead of this.

The story of Eddie Chapman was fascinating. Ben Macintyre is as wonderful as always.

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