Emily Sweet of Bloomsbury and Peter Dawson of Grade Design performed miracles in an astonishingly short space of time to bring this project to fruition. Kate Johnson’s copy-editing was, as usual, superbly efficient. Ed Victor and his team of highly trained agents have completed another mission brilliantly. Michael Fishwick, Trâm-Anh Doan and the rest of the staff at Bloomsbury have been, as ever, a delight to work with. Finally, my love and thanks to my family for allowing Ian Fleming and James Bond to move in with us.
Ben Macintyre
Selected Further Reading
Amis, Kingsley, The Bond Dossier (Jonathan Cape, 1965)
Amory, Mark, The Letters of Ann Fleming (Harvill Press, 1985)
Benson, Raymond, The James Bond Bedside Companion (Boxtree, 1988)
Black, Jeremy, The Politics of James Bond (Greenwood Press, 2001)
Chancellor, Henry, James Bond, the Man and his World: The Official Companion to Ian Fleming’s Creation (John Murray, 2005)
Chapman, James, Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (I. B. Tauris, 1999)
Cork, John, and Bruce Scivally, Bond: The Legacy (Boxtree, 2002)
Dalzel-Job, Patrick, Arctic Snow to Dust of Normandy (Leo Cooper, 2002)
Elliott, Nicholas, Never Judge a Man by His Umbrella (Michael Russell, 1991), With My Little Eye (Michael Russell, 1994)
Fleming, Peter, Brazilian Adventure (Jonathan Cape, 1933), The Sixth Column (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1951)
Lindner, Christoph, The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader (Manchester University Press, 2003)
Lycett, Andrew, Ian Fleming (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995)
Maclean, Fitzroy, Eastern Approaches (Jonathan Cape, 1949)
Minshall, Merlin, Guilt-Edged (Bachman and Turner, 1975)
Pearson, John, The Life of Ian Fleming (Jonathan Cape, 1966)
James Bond: The Authorised Biography (Century, 2007)
Pfeiffer, Lee, and Dave Worrall, The Essential James Bond: The Revised Authorised Guide to the World of 007 (Boxtree, 2003)
Popov, Duško, Spy/Counterspy (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974)
Stafford, David, Camp X (Viking, 1987)
West, Nigel, The Faber Book of Espionage (Faber, 1993)
Willman, Skip, et al., Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007 (Indiana University Press, 2005)
Winder, Simon, My Name’s Bond (Allen Lane, 2000)
A Note on the Author
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, the true story of a WWII double-agent, was a recent Sunday Times bestseller.
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One December night in 1942, a Nazi parachutist landed in a Cambridgeshire field. His mission: to sabotage the British war effort. His name was Eddie Chapman, but he would shortly become MI5’s Agent Zigzag. Dashing and louche, courageous and unpredictable, the traitor was a patriot inside, and the villain a hero. The problem for Chapman, his many lovers and his spymasters was knowing who he was. Ben Macintyre weaves together diaries, letters, photographs, memories and top-secret MI5 files to create the exhilarating account of Britain’s most sensational double agent.
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