NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A SPY AMONG FRIENDS In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated-- Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING COLIN FIRTH - The "brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining" (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker) true story of the most successful--and certainly the strangest--deception carried out in World War II, from...
Ben Macintyre's Agent Zigzag was hailed as "rollicking, spellbinding" ( New York Times ), "wildly improbable but entirely true" ( Entertainment Weekly ), and, quite simply, "the best book ever written" ( Boston Globe ). In his new book, Operation Mincemeat , he tells an extraordinary...