STEPHAN TALTY has contributed reporting to the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Details, and many other publications. He is the author of Escape from the Land of Snows, the bestselling Empire of Blue Water, The Illustrious Dead, and Mulatto America.
Juan Pujol is deserving of this biography, which captures not only
his humanity, but also his humanism. Stephan Talty has delivered a
beautiful report of every impossible day of Pujol's life, and AGENT
GARBO is a confirmation of Donne's devotional, that 'when one man
dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into
a better language.'
--The AtlanticTalty gives us an appreciably richer picture not only
of Pujol but also of an interwar period that could produce someone
willing and able to undertake the duplicity required of a double
agent. Along the way, the author captures the chilling realities of
bloody battlefields, tense war rooms and besieged London. Elegantly
crafted.
--The Wall Street JournalA wonderful book for WWII buffs, a
true-life spy thriller with about as much intrigue and excitement
as you'd find in a le Carré novel.
--Booklist (starred)The exciting, improbable adventures of a young
Spanish spy who managed to become Britain's most effective tool in
deceiving Hitler. A lively, rollicking good read.
--Kirkus ReviewsEpic intelligence coups of WWII unreel in this
colorful caper saga. Talty's Pujol is a captivating character with
a talent for operatic confabulation, but Garbo is just the alluring
lead in massive deceptions that the author likens to Hollywood
productions, complete with rubber tanks, fake ships, and a
Montgomery impersonator. The result is a rollicking story of
wartime eccentrics and their labyrinthine mind games.
--Publishers Weekly, starred "AGENT GARBO is the fascinating story
of a man whose wit, cunning, and steely nerves made the Allied
victory possible in World War II. Stephan Talty's unsurpassed
research brings forth one of the war's greatest agents in a
must-read book for those who think they know all the great World
War II stories."
-- Gregory Freeman, author of The Forgotten 500
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