Ben Macintyre’s entertaining 2008 Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi, Espionage, Love and Betrayal was a hard act to follow. A Boston Globe reviewer called it “the best book ever written”—praise that’s tough to top. But Macintyre’s new work, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Insured [...]
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A novel of revived Cold War espionage
by Rick Skwiot November 1, 2010 BooksIf today’s international fanatical terrorism makes you nostalgic for the Cold War, when the U.S., U.K. et al parried with a rational if ruthless U.S.S.R. (never mind the proxy wars in Angola, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, etc. and the threat of nuclear annihilation), then Alex Dryden’s new espionage novel Moscow Sting may be your cup [...]