Following the delightful Agent Zigzag, Ben Macintyre's second chronicle of espionage in World War II uncovers new details in an already sensational story, and was named a New York Times Best Book of 2011. Operation Mincemeat was an audacious scheme to concoct secret documents detailing a fictitious Allied landing in Sardinia, carried by a drowned Royal Marines officer who never existed. Macintyre's gripping history—filled with spies, double agents, rogues, fearless heroes, and one very important corpse—reveals just how big a gamble Mincemeat really was.