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

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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. This book had a serious lack of Nana Mama, the kids, and everyone on the good side, except Bree, so that was a bit disappointing. Double Cross is the fourth novel in Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses series, released in 2008. Their roles were to plant lies into Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany’s brains to make them the most unprepared for the D-Day invasion. As he begins to get closer though and play with fire, will he get too close and burned by the destruction?

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At times, this engagingly written but dizzying book - I struggled to keep track of the agent, their British code name, their German code name, plus the fact that code-names sometimes got revamped and changed - read almost like a comedy, as the subterfuges dreamed up got wilder and wilder. With his latest book, Double Cross, Ben Macintyre tells the astonishing true story of a bizarre group of misfit spies who played a critical role in the success of D-Day. Double Cross may be his best yet, falling somewhere between top-class entertainment and pure addiction. 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.They went on a bender through Belgrade’s nightspots, having enlisted “two girls from the chorus of one of the clubs. In style, his clothes still rivalled Eden’s, but his blond hair was no longer so closely trimmed and he had a neglected moustache, reddened by tobacco.