Operation Mincemeat

A rollicking read for all those who enjoy a spy story so fanciful that Ian Fleming - himself an officer in Montagu’s wartime department - would never have dared to invent it – Max Hastings * Sunday Times *
Ben Macintyre, also the author of the acclaimed Agent Zigzag, is fast becoming a one-man industry in these updated tales of cunning, bravery and skulduggery. With his mix of meticulous research and a good hack’s eye for narrative, it is hard to think of a better guide to keep beckoning us back to that fascinating world * Observer *
Macintyre has a journalist’s nose for a great story, and a novelist’s skill in its narration … Even more spellbinding than his previous story of wartime espionage, Agent Zigzag, with a cast-list every bit as dotty and colourful … Macintyre is a master of the thumbnail character sketch * Mail on Sunday *
With its fantastic plot and its cast of eccentric characters, the book reads like the most improbable of spy stories. It is a tribute to Macintyre’s skill that we never for a moment forget that it is actually all true * Daily Telegraph *
Astonishing … Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan * Daily Mail *
Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining – Malcolm Gladwell * New Yorker *

Ben Macintyre is a columnist and Associate Editor on The Times. He has worked as the newspaper’s correspondent in New York, Paris and Washington. He is the author of seven previous books including Agent Zigzag, the story of wartime double-agent Eddie Chapman, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Galaxy British Book Award for Biography of the Year 2008. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

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