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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter (Paperback)
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Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter (Paperback)
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June 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and
Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In
factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women determined
to do all they can to hasten it. Throughout the Second World War,
Britain's defence against the enemy within was Eric Roberts, a
former bank clerk from Epsom. Equipped with an extraordinary
ability to make people trust him, he was recruited into the shadowy
world of espionage by the great spymaster Maxwell Knight. Roberts
penetrated first the Communist Party and then the British Union of
Fascists, before playing his greatest role for MI5 - as Hitler's
man in London. Codenamed Jack King, he single-handedly built a
network of hundreds of British Nazi sympathisers, with many passing
secrets to him in the mistaken belief that he was a Gestapo
officer. Operation Fifth Column, run by a brilliant woman scientist
and a Jewish aristocrat with a sideline in bomb disposal, was kept
so secret it was omitted from the reports MI5 sent to Winston
Churchill. In a narrative that grips like a thriller, Robert Hutton
tells the fascinating story of an operation whose existence has
only recently come to light. Drawing on newly declassified
documents and private family archives, Agent Jack shatters the
comfortable notion that Britain could never have succumbed to
fascism, and celebrates - at last - the courage of individuals who
protected the country they loved at great personal risk.
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