From Career Criminal To One Of The Great Double Agents | True Life Spy Stories

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Imagine a professional criminal who became one of Britain's most valuable spies, a safecracker deemed so dangerous by police that his photograph hung in just about every station across the United Kingdom. This man, who some said couldn't even pick a lock, somehow became Hitler's most trusted British agent, and the only British national ever awarded the Iron Cross by the Nazi regime. He was a man who twice parachuted into Britain during World War 2 carrying German explosives, yet he returned to London as a hero rather than a traitor.

How did this charming rogue with a string of broken hearts and empty safes behind him become one of the most important double agents of World War II? This is the true story of Eddie Chapman – criminal, lover, spy, and double agent – whose remarkable life zigged and zagged between the shadows of heroism and villainy.

Further reading (affialiate links):

📕 Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy - Ben Macintyre (https://amzn.to/4k03xKH)
📕 Mrs Zigzag: The Extraordinary Life of a Secret Agent's Wife - Betty Chapman (https://amzn.to/45ykOau)
📕 Double Agent: The Eddie Chapman Story - Frank Owen, Steve Chadde (https://amzn.to/448IvDB)
📕 The Real Eddie Chapman Story - Eddie Chapman (https://amzn.to/4liR6uI)

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