Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal

Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal and con man who became one of Britain's most remarkable double agents. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, wireless, and cyanide pill. His orders from the Abwehr were to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service, and spent the next four years working as a double agent at the heart of the German Secret Service. Chapman's life was marked by contradictions: loyalty existed within his treachery, and heroism within his villainy. His spymasters, lovers, and Chapman himself struggled to distinguish where one persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, this account tells Chapman's full story for the first time, exploring themes of loyalty, love, espionage, and the shifting boundary between fidelity and betrayal.