About the book: 2011 / The story of Eddie Chapman - the most famous double agent of World War II. The background for this dizzying biography was the dramatic and bloody events of the mid-20th century, the incredible successes and discouraging mistakes of the intelligence services of the British Empire and the Third Reich, the “silent war” of mathematicians and counterintelligence officers for the enemy’s secret codes, the impossible interweaving of destinies - in a word, everything that we are used to seeing in twisted spy novels. The difference is that “Agent Zigzag” by Ben McIntyre is, although fascinating in form, but serious in the scale of the work done, a biographical study based on archival documents of the British counterintelligence MI recently opened to historians-5.