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The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapman

There were parts of this story I had come across before, such as the amazing fake sabotage of an aircraft factory, but Nicholas Booth does an excellent and readable job of stringing the whole narrative together. He brings out the isolation of a double agent's life mirrored in the contradictions of C......more

Eddie Chapman, the subject of Nicholas Booth's engrossing biography, was essentially a man of his time and generation. From a modest background in Sunderland, his craving for excitement led him to London where he mixed with criminals as a safe-cracker, to Jersey where he landed in prison, and to occ......more

This is the story of Eddie Chapman, most notorious double agent for Britain during WWII. A safecracker, thief, womanizer and all-around scoundrel. While being imprisoned in a Jersey Island jail in the English Channel, the Germans take over the island. They learn of Eddie’s talent as a safecracker an......more

The story of Eddie Chapman, a small time English thief who becomes a Nazi spy and later a double agent for MI5. Like its subject, the book is haphazard and disorganized. It is never clear if Chapman was a patriot or a traitor. It is an interesting story but it does not flow as well as I prefer.......more

I give this a solid 3.5 stars. It was an interesting, albeit, information-packed book about how a spy -a double agent at that- worked and lived, schemed and planned, in wartime Europe. There was so much detail, however, that by the very end, I found myself skimming through the epilogue as I had no n......more