Bibliograph

Agent Jack, the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter, Robert Hutton

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Agent Jack, the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter, Robert Hutton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-291) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Agent Jack

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Robert Hutton

Sub title

the true story of MI5's secret Nazi hunter

Summary

In 1940, Europe has fallen to Adolf Hitler's army, and Britain is his next target. Winston Churchill exhorts the country to resist the Nazis, and the nation seems to rally behind him. But in secret, some British citizens are plotting to hasten an invasion. Eric Roberts, a seemingly inconsequential bank clerk, helped--in the guise of "Jack King"--uncover and neutralize the invisible threat of fascism on British shores. Gifted with an extraordinary ability to make people trust him, Eric Roberts penetrated the Communist Party and the British Union of Fascists before playing his greatest role for MI5: Hitler's man in London. Pretending to be an agent of the Gestapo, Roberts single-handedly built a network of hundreds of British Nazi sympathizers-factory workers, office clerks, shopkeepers -who shared their secrets with him. It was work so secret and so sensitive that it was kept out of the reports MI5 sent to Winston Churchill.

Target audience

adult

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