Nigel Jones

The one-man spy factory who changed history

A review of Jason Webster’s The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent. Few spies made a bigger difference to the course of the Second World War than Juan Pujol, aka Agent Garbo

A document relating to the double-agent Garbo - whose messages helped to deceive the Germans about the location and timing of the D-Day landings [PA Archive/Press Association Images] 
issue 05 April 2014

  • The Spy with 29 Names: The Story of the Second World War’s Most Audacious Double Agent

    Jason Webster

    Chatto, pp. 322

With two new biographies of Kim Philby out, an espionage drama by Sir David Hare on BBC2, and the recent revelation that the aristocrat superspy John Bingham was the model for George Smiley, there is little doubt that Britain is currently going through one of its fitful bouts of spy fever, and this book can only add to the excitement.

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