6/20/2023 0 Comments Agent zigzag![]() ![]() He had a map when he set off, but he seems to have lost it….Īfter Macintyre rewinds to an earlier beginning and starts again, it takes all but one of the chapters I’ve read so far to get back to this point. At the start of the book, this man in a suit – we don’t know who he is yet – has parachuted into a field and doesn’t know where he is. It’s one of the themes of this middle section of the book: the Brits are better at just about everything than the Germans. He was never really the Nazis’ secret anyway: the British have known all about Agent Fritz – giving him the Brits’ all-purpose nickname for Germans is the Abwehr’s little joke – because since the cracking of the Enigma codes they’ve known about most things they do. Macintyre begins at one of the beginnings – at the moment when our man is about to stop being the Nazis’ secret weapon, and start being the Brits’ secret weapon instead. ![]() What can I say? For a start, it’s hugely enjoyable. ![]()
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