Agent Jack
The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter
Robert Hutton
Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
336 pages; Rs 1,503
In early 1943, an Austrian expert in aluminium foil manufacture approached Jack King, the man he knew as a senior Gestapo liaison in the UK, with some vital intelligence to pass on to the Fuhrer’s Third Reich. The Wembley-based company for which he worked, he told King, had been approached by the air ministry to manufacture foil strips to a particular specification.
Hans Kohout, a naturalised British citizen but a committed Nazi, did not know what the strips were for, but he understood that they were vital
