{"title":"Ben Macintyre","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"agente-zigzag","title":"Agent Zigzag","description":"Within a traitor, a patriot. Within the villain, a man of conscience. But what are the limits, the boundaries between one and the other? Eddie Chapman, codename ZigZag, Britain's most sensational double agent, harbored within himself the tricks and schemes of a professional con artist. Before World War II, when his life would take a turn worthy of his nickname, Chapman was a con artist, womanizer, thief, blackmailer, safecracker, and other activities. In *Agent ZigZag*, Ben Macintyre recounts the spectacular trajectory of this fascinating character. A story so far-fetched that in fiction it would be dismissed as improbable. Unpredictable, bold, and vulgar, Chapman proved crucial to his German and British bosses. To the Nazis, he was their super spy, whom they awarded the Iron Cross for \"heroism.\" To M15, ZigZag possessed the courage to achieve the unbelievable. He diverted V1 bombs away from London, misled the Germans with false information, and casually offered to assassinate Hitler. In 1940, when the Nazis invaded the Isle of Jersey, a British possession off the coast of France, Chapman was serving a sentence for bank robbery. A born opportunist, he made a deal with the occupying troops: if they would train him as a spy, he would work for the Reich. Taken to a training camp in western France, he learned parachuting, combat techniques, sabotage, intelligence, wireless telegraphy, and the uses of various explosives. His life as a burglar served him well in the latter regard. In the winter of 1942, Chapman would receive his baptism of fire: destroying an aircraft factory north of London. When he boarded an aircraft of the feared Luftwaffe, he carried with him, among other things, matches impregnated with quinine for invisible writing and a potassium cyanide suicide capsule sewn into the left hem of his pants. Upon landing on British soil with his parachute, he immediately reported to MI5, the British secret service. He had always claimed this was his intention from the start. Was it true? It doesn't matter. Drawing on diaries, letters, photographs, interrogation transcripts, radio intercepts from MI5's secret archives—and more recollections from survivors—Macintyre creates a compelling account of Eddie Chapman's many lives. The book has had its film rights purchased and will be released in a Tom Hanks production. \"A vivid and well-researched portrait of the remarkable World War II double agent.\" Sunday Times \"A more compelling study of espionage and deception is unlikely to be published this year.\" The Times","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176722645244,"sku":"9788501082503","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/6e080fddd6abb60e904b38d4374f81ca_c5d561d9-66c5-4861-bfbc-55d95cfeaf9e.jpg?v=1778318733"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/ben-macintyre.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}