![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Spy Runner he reveals his father’s fascinating story with a collection of recently released reports and photos from The National Archives, and intimate family snaps. In 1994, shortly before Ronnie’s death, he revealed the truth of his remarkable past to his son, Nicholas. For ten years after the Second World War, he headed the anti-Russian department of MI5, dealing with notorious spies such as Philby, Burgess and Maclean. The passport photo of The Man Who Never Was, was a photo of Ronnie Reed. Recruited in the dead of night from his Anderson shelter, Ronnie became a case officer for double agents, including Eddie Chapman, known then as Agent Zigzag. And yet, despite minimal money and qualifications, he became one of the men behind some of the most remarkable spy stories of all time. He was only 23 when it broke out an amateur radio enthusiast who was working as a maintenance engineer for the BBC. Major Ronnie Reed never spoke about what he did in the Second World War. But the police car that collected me took me to Wormwood Scrubs Prison. ![]() I remember it as the day I was called up. Two critically acclaimed and internationally bestselling tales of World War II espionage from the master of suspense, Ben Macintyre Agent Zigzag One. Most of us remember the seventh of September 1940 as the day the London docks were bombed and devastated by fire. ![]()
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