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Agent Zigzag
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. In 1941, after... more...
Operation Mincemeat
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00Ben 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 story that will delight his legions of fans. In 1943, from a... more...
Forgotten Fatherland
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00In 1886 Elisabeth Nietzsche, Friedrich?s bigoted, imperious sister, founded a ?racially pure? colony in Paraguay together with a band of blonde-haired fellow Germans. Over a century later Ben Macintyre sought out the survivors of this ?Nueva Germania? to discover the remains of this bizarre colony. Forgotten Fatherland vividly recounts his arduous... more...
The Napoleon of Crime
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. . . . --Sherlock Holmes on Professor Moriarty in "The Final Problem" The Victorian era's most infamous thief, Adam Worth was the original Napoleon of crime. Suave,... more...
The Man Who Would Be King
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008; US$ 16.99The Riveting Account of the American Who Inspired Kipling's Classic Tale and the John Huston Movie In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs,... more...
Double Cross
Crown Publishing Group 2012; US$ 15.00In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross , Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the... more...
The Englishman's Daughter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002; US$ 7.99"I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade." Alan Seeger, 1916 In the first days of World War I four soldiers, left behind as the British army retreated through northern France under the first German onslaught, found themselves trapped on the wrong side of the Western Front, in a tiny village called Villeret. Just a few miles... more...
A Foreign Field (Text Only)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableThis edition does not include illustrations. A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. From the Number 1 bestselling author of ?Agent ZigZag? and ?Operation Mincemeat?. more...
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableThe rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle?s Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes? arch-rival. From the bestselling author of ?Operation Mincemeat? and ?Agent Zigzag?. more...
Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not AvailableThe amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. more...









