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Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Then the new German agent signed a formal espionage contract (under which his expected rewards were to be subjected to income tax). 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 Gröning and spymaster Oberleutnant Praetorius. Just launching his criminal career when World War II began, the dashing adventurer was jailed in the Channel Island Jersey. 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. A preternaturally talented liar and pretty good safecracker becomes a “spy prodigy” working concurrently for Britain’s MI5 and the Nazi’s Abwehr. ![]()
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