Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper's correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He now lives in London with his wife and three children. Agent Zigzag is his fifth book.
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 * A fascinating biography of this most astonishing and insouciant of double agents ... incredible * Sunday Telegraph * Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving * John Le Carré * 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 * A cracker of a Second World War double-agent yarn * The Times * The story of Eddie Chapman is different. In fiction it would be rejected as improbable -- MI5