The Secret Agent: In Search of America's Greatest World War II Spy

✍ Scribed by Talty, Stephan

• Book ID: 108639617
• Publisher: Diversion Books
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781626811652

✦ Synopsis

In this #1 Kindle bestseller, Eric Erickson, the most important American spy of WWII, has a dangerous secret to keep.

In 1942, the Brooklyn-born Erickson was a millionaire oil mogul who volunteered for a dangerous mission inside the Third Reich: locating the top-secret synthetic oil plants that kept the German war machine running. To fool the Nazis, Erickson played the role of a collaborator. He hung a portrait of Hitler in his apartment and "disowned" his Jewish best friend, then flew to Berlin, where he charmed Himmler and signed lucrative oil deals with the architects of the Final Solution. All the while, he was visiting the oil refineries and passing their coordinates to Allied Bomber Command, who destroyed the plants in a series of B-17 raids, helping to end the war early.

After the war, Erickson's was revealed as a secret agent and received the Medal of Freedom for his bravery. William Holden even played him in a hit Hollywood movie. For a brief moment in the...