BEN MACINTYRE is a writer-at-large for The Times of London and the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Double Cross, Operation Mincemeat, and Agent Zigzag, among other books. Macintyre has also written and presented BBC documentaries of his work.
“Gripping stories from the perspective of a remarkable ragtag group
of spies who tricked the Nazis in an astounding D-Day
deception. Puts other spy tales to shame.” —People
“It should be said loud and clear that Macintyre is a supremely
gifted storyteller. He spins quite a yarn. His books are absurdly
entertaining. I would kill for his keen wit. He takes us into a
world of bounders, spivs, roués, and men (and women) on the
make….Double Cross is a blast.”
—Boston Globe
“Forget fiction when you are buying beach reading this summer. Ben
Macintyre’s factual account is more gripping than what you will
find anywhere else. It is a story unsurpassed in the long history
of intelligence.”
—Washington Times
“Macintyre at once exalts and subverts the myths of spycraft, and
has a keen eye for absurdity.”
—New Yorker
“[A] complex, absorbing final installment in his trilogy about
World War II espionage….Macintyre is a master storyteller.
Employing a wry wit and a keen eye for detail, he delivers an
ultimately winning tale fraught with European intrigue and subtle
wartime heroics.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Superb….the story comes alive again in all its stupendous,
unimaginable duplicity.…intensely readable”
—Washington Post
“A wonderfully entertaining story of deception and trickery that is
told with verve and wit….Macintyre’s early books about espionage in
World War II have been bestsellers, and this will be no
exception.”
—Christian Science Monitor
“Macintyre revels in the surreal aspects of his story, writing with
a breezy, almost tongue-in-cheek style. But the author is also
adept at communicating the seriousness and the stakes of the
underlying game….Nail-biting and chuckle-inducing reading.”
—Columbus Dispatch
“Another captivating, improbably fresh story of World War
II….Double Cross is ennobling, invigorating and, above all,
entertaining. Macintyre's research is impressive, as is his ability
to shape disparate facts into a breathless page-turner….Throw in
nail-biting suspense and the occasional decadent Nazi (fickle
mistress optional) and, with Macintyre in charge, you're virtually
guaranteed a history book that reads like a spy novel.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“It is the riveting tales of these agents on which Ben Macintyre
focuses, to full advantage, in Double Cross….Macintyre makes good
use of the material. He knows how to let the high drama unfold on
its own.”
—Wall Street Journal
“London Times writer Macintyre (Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat)
concludes his WWII espionage trilogy with the tantalizing tale of
an oddball, ‘Dirty Dozen’-like group of double agents who fool the
Nazis into believing the Allied D-Day attack would come at Calais,
not Normandy.”
—New York Post, Required reading
“A tale of smarts, personal courage and — even knowing what
happened on June 6, 1944 — suspense. Where would we be if
these troubled, eccentric and hang-it-all characters hadn't known
how to lie, and lie well?”
—Seattle Times
“As in his earlier best-sellers about WWII-era spycraft, Agent
Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, Macintyre writes with novelistic
flair.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The story of D-Day – when 150,000 Allied troops landed on the
beaches of Normandy – as it’s never been told before….this amazing
story shows how double agents and spies tricked the German army and
saved thousands of Allied lives.”
—New York Post
“Only with author Ben Macintyre’s scintillating account has this
complex human drama, with all its tortuous twists and turns,
finally received the cinematic treatment it deserves….This is
edge-of-the seat stuff.”
—WWII Magazine
“Macintyre does a fine job depicting this extraordinary cast and
exposing the ambiguous world of espionage....compelling.”
—MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History
“With the same skill and suspense he displayed in Operation
Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag….Macintyre effortlessly weaves the
agents’ deliciously eccentric personalities with larger wartime
events to shape a tale that reads like a top-notch spy
thriller.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
“Macintyre has written a tense, exciting real-life spy story that
illuminates a largely obscure aspect of WWII.”
—Booklist
“With his latest book, Double Cross, Ben Macintyre tells the
astonishing true story of a bizarre group of misfit spies who
played a critical role in the success of D-Day. The stories
in this book, many of which have never before been told, are
nothing short of incredible. Skillfully woven together, they
form one of the most gripping narratives I have ever read.”
—Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the
Republic
“Ben Macintyre and I work in the same period, and I should be
reading him because he is such a scrupulous and insightful writer –
a master historian. But, with Double Cross and his other excellent
works, I always wind up reading him for pleasure. Double
Cross may be his best yet, falling somewhere between top-class
entertainment and pure addiction.”
—Alan Furst, author of A Mission to Paris
"Ben Macintyre’s spellbinding account features an improbable cast
of characters who pulled off a counter-intelligence feat that was
breathtaking in its audacity. Their deceptions within
deceptions—known as the Double Cross—were critical to the success
of the D-Day invasion, and continued to mislead the Germans long
after Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. A truly
bravura performance, as is Macintyre’s fast-paced tale."
—Andrew Nagorski, author of Hitlerland: American Eyewitnesses to
the Nazi Rise to Power
"How on earth, in 1944, did we dupe Berlin that we would attack the
coast of France in completely the wrong place? It was a
deception that saved tens of thousands of Allied lives. In
Double Cross, Ben Macintyre ingeniously explains exactly how it was
done."
—Frederick Forsyth
"Never before revealed facts about the workings of the Intelligence
Service in the build up to D-Day in the Second World War. Ben
Macintyre's remarkable book is a gripping revelation."
—Jack Higgins
“[Macintyre] has excelled himself with a cast of extraordinary
characters and in his storytelling abilities....Double Cross is an
utterly gripping story.”
—Antony Beevor, The Telegraph
“Enthralling....Macintyre is a master at leading the reader down
some very tortuous paths while ensuring they never lose their
bearings. He’s terrific, too, at animating his characters with the
most succinct of touches....gripping.”
—London Evening Standard
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