Eddie 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. In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with orders to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, he worked as a double agent, a British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service. Crisscrossing Europe under different names, weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and miraculously keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way. MI5 has now declassified all of Chapman's files, allowing the full story to be told, a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.--From publisher description.

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2007.

Prologue -- The Hotel de la Plage -- Jersey Gaol -- Island at War -- Romainville -- Villa de la Bretonniere -- Dr. Graumann -- Codebreakers -- The Mosquito -- Under Unseen Eyes -- The Drop -- Martha's Exciting Night -- Camp 020 -- 35 Crespingny Road -- What a Way Out -- Freda and Diane -- Abracadabra -- The Greater the Adventure -- The Greater the Adventure -- Stowaway Spy -- Joli Albert -- Damp Squib -- The Ice Front -- The Girl at the Ritz -- Sabotage Consultant -- Lunch at the Luteitia -- The Prodigal Crook -- Doodlebugs -- Going to the Dogs -- Case Dismissed -- Aftermath -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Biography -- Index.