Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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The story also has a few important things to remember and can cause confusion if the reader forgets them. Honestly, if the social hijinks of sixth graders don’t highly interest, an older reader could probably skip ahead and read just this book without missing too much. Smith’s Spy School for Girls series; the Lola Benko, Treasure Hunter series; the Secret of the Storm series; and several adult mysteries. Women frequently found him irresistible, with his easy manners, “loose, sensual mouth,” and green eyes behind heavy lids. No imagination was complete without visions of a foolishly lust-stricken enemy officer being filled with Brandy Alexanders and having his ear nibbled, before he blurts out the technical specifications for a new magnetic rocket gun.

As the murders get more serious, Alex decides to once again work with the DC Metropolitan Police Department while continuing his work as a psychologist. But as I stated in my review of the previous book, this type of generic, formulaic story can also be important for the development of some readers. Double Cross may be his best yet, falling somewhere between top-class entertainment and pure addiction. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.When Popov was challenged to a sword duel over a girl, it was Jebsen, as his second, who quietly arranged a peaceful solution, to Popov’s relief, “not thinking my looks would be improved by a bright red cicatrix. Macintyre is a master at leading the reader down some very tortuous paths while ensuring they never lose their bearings. Ben Macintyre's spellbinding account features an improbable cast of characters who pulled off a counter-intelligence feat that was breathtaking in its audacity. I didn’t really feel like I knew Tobey before this book, and I don’t feel like I know him afterward, either. Super dad, super cop, super doc Alex solves the mystery but only when he isn't chasing his new girlfriend and trying to find time to have sex with her.

This deception, made by the Double Cross agents, the MI5 double agent section, was the most sophisticated and successful deception operation ever to take place.The investigators find a Hallmark greeting card and a tape featuring the killer throwing Olsen from a balcony in her apartment.

Run by a small, fiercely dedicated band in St James's (including Anthony Blunt, who passed everything on to Stalin), this became an ever more elaborate operation. Anthony reveals to Sandy that he has received a message from Kyle announcing that he wishes to see DCAK, implying to the audience that they are the DCAK. Despite the huge scope of the story, this reads as a much tighter book than Macintyre's Operation Mincemeat.

The Germans came extremely close to realising that the agents were fakes – the Abwehr had been shut down earlier in the year, its functions taken over by the ferocious Reich Main Security Office and its disloyal and corrupt officials arrested, tortured and killed. After angering DCAK, who reveals he had killed Bell, Bree manages to escape her bounds and shoot and kill Sandy. There is an edge of hysteria to all this, and its success depended on a state of affairs on the whole invisible to the British at the time – namely that the Abwehr was riddled with incompetence, corruption and anti-Hitler sentiment and was sneered at and disregarded by Himmler and his associates. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

The Atlantic wall – on which Rommel had spent so much time, resource and slave labour – was flattened in a morning and the allies began the grim process of liberating France. The friend turned out to be one Major Müntzinger, a corpulent Bavarian and the most senior Abwehr officer in the Balkans. May have some underlining and highlighting of text and some writing in the margins, but there are no missing pages or anything else that would compromise the readability or legibility of the text. Alex scolds Damon, who is frustrated that Alex missed a meeting to allow Damon to attend a prep school, Cushing Academy, in Ashburnham Massachusetts.As the Polish army crumbled beneath the German onslaught, Czerniawski escaped to Romania and then, using forged documents, made his way to France, where Polish forces were regrouping. Popov was a law student, while Jebsen was taking an economics degree, the better to manage the family firm.