Zig Zag: The Incredible Wartime Exploits Of Double Agent Eddie Chapman

Eddie Chapman was a career criminal and a skilled safecracker whose exploits had made him a familiar name to the police before the Second World War. When the war reached the Channel Islands, he found himself in German hands, and German intelligence recruited him as a spy and trained him for missions against Britain. The book follows his journey to England, where he parachuted into the country and then surrendered to British authorities rather than carrying out his assignment. From there he became a double agent, feeding false information back to the Germans on behalf of British intelligence. Nicholas Booth traces how a man of little principle became one of the most unusual and valuable agents of the war.