The client is zigzagging

From the bestselling author of the novel, now a major film adaptation and shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award: 'As thrilling as any suspense novel' (Daily Telegraph); 'Brilliant. Careful research, superb storytelling, and thoroughly entertaining' (John le Carré); 'This is the most wonderful book, full of fantastic and terrifying real-life adventures... It would be impossible to recommend it highly' (Mail on Sunday). One night in December 1942, a Nazi paratrooper landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he quickly became MI5's ZigZag Agent. Handsome, charming, brave, and unpredictable, Chapman was alternately a traitor, a hero, a villain, and a man of conscience. But, as his superiors and many of his admirers often wondered, who was the real Eddie Chapman? Ben Macintyre weaves together memoirs, letters, photographs, memories, and top-secret MI5 files to create a thrilling novel about Britain's most exciting double agent.