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“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

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Washington Post Best Book of 2007

One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 (Entertainment

Weekly)

New York Times Best of the Year Round-Up

New York Times Editors’ Choice

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a

philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents

Britain has ever produced. 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 persona ended and

the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent

Zigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s a

gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin

and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.

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　　BEN MACINTYRE is writer-at-large and associate editor of the

London Times. He is the author of The Man Who Would Be

King, the Englishman’s Daughter, The Napoleon of

Crime, and Forgotten Fatherland. He lives in London with

his wife, the novelist Kate Muir, and their three children

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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One night the Carlton Club was hit by a bomb.The members of the surrounding clubs, in pyjamas and slippers, formed long lines to save the library from the flames, passing books from hand to hand and discussing the merits of each as they passed. Such people, thought Masterman, 'made defeat seem impossible'.

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“Macintyre is the more graceful writer; Agent Zigzag has

a clarity and shape that make it the more fluid account… I would

give a personal nod to Macintyre’s as the better book… A review

cannot possibly convey the sheer fun of this story… or the

fascinating moral complexities.”

—New York Times Book Review

“[Agent Zigzag’s] incredible wartime adventures, recounted in Ben

Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blend the

spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of

Evelyn Waugh.”

—The New York Times

“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….Eddie Chapman was a patriot, in his fashion, and this

excellent book finally does him justice.”

—The Washington Post Book World

"Fact sounds like fast-moving fiction in this espionage saga of a

man who was probably the most improbable double agent to emerge in

World War II. ... The author has written an enormously fascinating

book about an enormously fascinating man. The late Eddie Chapman

would have been delighted to at last capture the limelight denied

him by the restrictions of his wartime profession. The question now

is, who will make the movie and who will play the lead? Too bad

Errol Flynn is dead."

—Washington Times

“[R]ichly de*ive, marvelously illuminating, and just

plain brilliant….One could not think of a better subject for

Macintyre's curious mind than the man whom British intelligence

dubbed Agent Zigzag in December 1942…. [A] plot - impossible and

pointless to summarize - that is as briskly paced and suspenseful

as any novel's. Macintyre's diligent research and access to

once-secret files combine here with his gift of empathetic

imagination and inspired re-creation. He writes with brio and a

festive spirit and has quite simply created a masterpiece.”

—The Boston Globe

"Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely

entertaining and often very moving."

—John le Carré

“Macintyre [relates] his compellingly cinematic spy thriller with

verve.”

—Entertainment Weekly (an “EW Pick”)

“Agent Zigzag is a true-history thriller, a real

spy story superbly written. It belongs to my favorite genre: the

‘Friday night book’–start it then, because you will want to

stay with it all weekend.”

—Alan Furst

“A portrait of a man who double-crossed not only the Nazis, but

just about every other principle and person he encountered. In

doing so, Eddie Chapman made all thriller writers’ jobs harder,

because this spy tale trumps any fiction.”

—Men’s Journal

“One of the most extraordinary stories of the Second World

War.”

—William Boyd, The Sunday Telegraph

“This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and

hair-raising true-life adventures…and beautifully told. For anyone

interested in the Second World War, spying, romance, skullduggery

or the hidden chambers of the human mind, it would be impossible to

recommend it too highly.”

—The Mail on Sunday

“Speaking as a former MI6 officer, take it from me: there are very

few books which give you a genuine picture of what it feels like to

be a spy. This is one…. an enthralling war story.”

—The Daily Express

“Macintyre tells Chapman’s tale in a perfect pitch: with the

Boys’ Own thrills of Rider Haggard, the verve of George

MacDonald Fraser and Carl Hiassen’s mordant humor. . . . Hugely

entertaining.”

—The [London] Observer

“If Ben Macintyre had presented this story as a novel, it

would have been denounced as far too unlikely: yet every word of it

is true. Moreover he has that enviable gift, the inability to write

a dull sentence. An enthralling book results from the opening up of

once deadly secret files.”

—The Spectator

“Splendidly vivid. . . . There are endless delightful

twists to the tale.”

—Max Hastings, The [London] Sunday Times

“Ben Macintyre's rollicking, thriller-paced account…is a Boy's

Own adventure par excellence and a gripping psychological case

study of a man 'torn between patriotism and egotism.'”

—Time Out

“Macintyre succeeds in bringing Chapman vividly to life. It is

unlikely that a more engaging study of espionage and deception will

be published this year.”

—The Times

"A preternaturally talented liar and pretty good

safecracker becomes a “spy prodigy” working concurrently for

Britain’s MI5 and the Nazi’s Abwehr.

London Times newsman and popular historian Macintyre (The

Man Who Would be King: The First American in Afghanistan, 2004,

etc) reports on the life and crimes of the late Eddie Chapman using

interviews, newly released secret files and, cautiously, the

English spy’s less-reliable memoirs. Just launching his criminal

career when World War II began, the dashing adventurer was jailed

in the Channel Island Jersey. Volunteering his services to the

occupying Fatherland, he was taken to France and schooled in the

dark arts of espionage and the wicked devices of spies by the likes

of convivial headmaster Herr von Gr?ning and spymaster Oberleutnant

Praetorius. Then the new German agent signed a formal espionage

contract (under which his expected rewards were to be subjected to

income tax). Dropped in England’s green and pleasant land to commit

sabotage, he instead reported directly to His Majesty’s secret

service. There they called their man 'Agent ZigZag.' The Germans

had named him “Fritzchen.” Little Fritz, with the help of a

magician, fooled his Nazi handlers into believing he had wrecked an

aircraft factory. After a crafty return to Germany, he made another

parachute drop home to report on an anti-sub device and the

accuracy of the new V-1 flying bomb. The energetic adventurer from

a lower stratum of British society was being run by Oxbridge

gentlemen and by aristocrats of Deutschland at the same time. Or

perhaps he was running them. Adorning his exploits were several

beautiful women and an Iron Cross. It is a remarkable

cloak-and-dagger procedural and a fine tale of unusual wartime

employment….

One of the great true spy stories of World War II, vividly

rendered."

—Kirkus

From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

“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

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Washington Post Best Book of 2007

One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 ( Entertainment Weekly )

New York Times Best of the Year Round-Up

New York Times Editors’ Choice

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. 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 persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.