Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller For the first time, rock music’s most famous muse tells herincredible story Pattie Boyd, former wife of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton,finally breaks a forty-year silence and tells the story of how shefound herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuousmusical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the mostlegendary muse in the history of rock and roll. The woman whoinspired Harrison’s song “Something” and Clapton’s anthem “Layla,”Pattie Boyd has written a book that is rich and raw, funny andheartbreaking–and totally honest.
“Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus- spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of EvelynWaugh.” —William Grimes, The New York Times A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of 2007 One of the Top 10 Best Books of 2007 ( EntertainmentWeekly ) New York Times Best of the Year Round-Up New York Times Editors’ Choice Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and aphilanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agentsBritain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty;inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, hisspymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended andthe other began. Based on recently declassified files, AgentZigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s agripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thinand shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.